cut-glass
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Attributive form of cut glass (“made of cut glass”).
— There was a rough stone age and a smooth stone age and a bronze age, and many years afterward a cut-glass age. In the cut-glass age, when young ladies had persuaded young men with long, curly mustaches to marry them, they sat down several months afterward and wrote thank-you notes for all sorts of cut-glass presents—punch bowls, finger-bowls, dinner-glasses, […]
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Alternative form of cutglass (“clearly enunciated”).
— “Yes, I really was pinging,” she says, with that imperious cut-glass accent.
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