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Pyrex|ˈpaɪərɛks|
Also pyrex.
[Invented word.
Cf. the following quot.: 1957 Amer. Speech XXXII. 290 The assistant secretary of the [Corning Glass] company wrote me as follows: The word pyrex is a purely arbitrary word which was devised in 1915 as a trade-mark for products manufactured and sold by Corning Glass Works... We had a number of prior trade-marks ending in the letters ex. One of the first commercial products to be sold under the new mark was a pie plate and in the interests of euphonism the letter r was inserted between pie and ex and the whole thing condensed to pyrex.]
The proprietary name of a hard, heat-resistant, borosilicate glass. Freq. attrib.
1915Amer. Cookery Aug.-Sept. 159 (Advt.), Pyrex (‘fire-glass’) Glass Dishes for Baking. Ibid., Pyrex is a new-process glass, fire-proofed to withstand the heat of the hottest oven. 1916Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 1 Aug. 245/1 Corning Glass Works, Corning, N.Y. Filed July 10, 1915 Pyrex... Glass. Claims use since May 20, 1915. 1917Trade Marks Jrnl. 10 Jan. 30 Pyrex... All goods included in Class 15. Corning Glass Works..New York, U.S.A... 11th October 1916. 1927Glasgow Herald 1 July 10 Housewives no longer use iron pots and pans. Their kitchenettes are bright with aluminium and pyrex ware. 1932Auden in Rev. Eng. Stud. (1978) Aug. 295 Tea was served, Poured by the secretary from a pyrex teapot. 1932Discovery June 199/2 The door itself is fitted with a Pyrex glass window for inspection of the flame. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Feb. 70/2 Fashionable art critics' jargon which attributes organic qualities to Mr Moore's bronzes or Mr Frank Lloyd Wright's pillars of Pyrex glass. 1961R. M. Dashwood Provincial Daughter 107 Odd pieces of Cornish Ware, Pyrex, Willow pattern. 1976‘Z. Stone’ Modigliani Scandal iv. iv. 178 Moore took out his false teeth..and dropped them in a Pyrex beaker. |