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spun glass

noun

  1. blown glass in which fine threads of glass form the surface texture.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of spun glass1

First recorded in 1770–80
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Example Sentences

Each night she sends spectral melodies out into the universe, songs with the weblike clarity of spun glass.

From Time

Even rocks have been imitated; and spun glass has often successfully represented water.

The relics of yellow hair, still adhering to the sides of his head, looked as silkily frail as spun glass.

Spun glass is used by chemists for filtering strong acid solutions.

In every museum you may see specimens of a beautiful vase-like structure seemingly made of spun-glass.

Its hair was like spun glass, of a bluish, pinkish gray, snow-white in the partings.

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