Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Glass of some peculiar sort used in decorative work: a word differently used by different writers. Glass especially prepared to receive a deep-red color, and used when colored for flashing white glass. This is the common form of red glass prepared for ornamental windows.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A kind of glass of a red or ruby color, made in Bohemia.
Etymologies
- German Schmelz, Schmelzglas. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Every year bubbles of greater and greater beauty are being blown in these secluded places, and soon we hope to enrich commerce with all the elegances of latticinio and schmelze, the perfected glass of an American Venice.”
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873
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Four Initial Consonants
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chthonic, nschiego, tschego, schmooze, schmaltz, schnapps, schlocky, schlieric, schlieren, schlump, schmutz, schmuck and 16 more...
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The Glassworks
filigree-glass, vitro-di-trina, reticulated glass, latticinio, schmelze, swing-table, cullet, ratsbane, eskalith, fly-frame, polissoir, flattener and 158 more...
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