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Venetian glass   /vənˈiʃən glæs/   Listen
Venetian glass

noun
1.
Fine glassware made near Venice.






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"Venetian glass" Quotes from Famous Books



... none so large as the first. Some were quite small, but the majority about as big as an average balloon, and with much the same curvature at the top. There was in them a delicacy of texture and colouring which reminded me of the finest Venetian glass. Pale shades of pink and green were the prevailing tints, but all had a lovely iridescence where the sun shimmered through their dainty forms. Some hundreds of them drifted past me, a wonderful fairy squadron of strange, unknown argosies of the sky—creatures whose forms and substance were so ...
— Danger! and Other Stories • Arthur Conan Doyle



Words linked to "Venetian glass" :   glasswork, glassware



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