Dictionary

cut-glass en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (attributive, form-of, not-comparable) Attributive form of cut glass (“made of cut glass”).
   form 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, […] 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Cut-Glass Bowl”, in Scribner's Magazine:
2. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of cutglass (“clearly enunciated”).
   alt of cutglass
   • “Yes, I really was pinging,” she says, with that imperious cut-glass accent. 2021 March 27, Simon Hattenstone, “Charlotte Rampling: ‘I am prickly. People who are prickly can’t be hurt any more’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
   • The princess had made occasional wartime radio broadcasts, her piping, stilted voice, speaking in cut-glass tones to the children of the empire, […] 2022 September 8, Stephen Bates, “Queen Elizabeth II obituary”, in The Guardian: