Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Glass of some peculiar sort used in decorative work: a word differently used by different writers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of glass of a red or ruby color, made in Bohemia.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A kind of ruby-red
glass made inBohemia .
Etymologies
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German Schmelz, Schmelzglas.
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Examples
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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 Various
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