单词 | overlay paperweight |
释义 | > as lemmasoverlay paperweight C2. overlay glass, overlay paperweight, overlay weight: see sense 1d. ΚΠ 1940 E. H. Bergstrom Old Glass Paperweights ii. 12 In an encrusted overlay weight, the color overlays and faceting were apparently followed by a final dip into clear crystal to complete the weight. 1958 G. B. Hughes Eng. Glass for Collector 1660–1860 xx. 220 Those who toured the Continent in the early nineteenth century enthusiastically adorned their dining-tables and dressing rooms on their return with specimens of colourful Bohemian work known as cased or overlay glass. 1967 P. G. Wodehouse Company for Henry iii. 45 A French eighteenth-century paperweight alluded to as follows:..Clichy double overlay weight. 1973 J. Mackay Glass Paperweights viii. 54 The majority of these overlay weights are doubles with an inner overlay of white and an outer overlay in shades of red, green or blue. 1999 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) (Nexis) 25 July aa1 (caption) ‘Gingham’, an encased overlay paperweight, was produced between 1845 and 1855 in France. < as lemmas |
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