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单词 passglas
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passglasn.

Brit. /ˈpɑːsɡlɑːs/, /ˈpasɡlas/, U.S. /ˈpæsˈɡlæs/
Inflections: Plural pass glasses.
Forms: 1800s– passglas, 1800s– pass glass.
Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Passglas.
Etymology: < German Passglas (1566 as pasglas ) < Pass measure (obsolete in this sense; Middle High German pas measure < classical Latin passus : see pace n.1) + Glas glass n.1 Compare Middle Low German pasglas, Swedish passglas (1543; probably < Middle Low German or German).
historical.
A tall glass beaker decorated with markings (usually parallel rings or a spiral) delineating measures for a drinking game.Popular in Germany in the 16th and 17th centuries.Each drinker was supposed to drink only enough to reach the next marking on the passglas before passing the beaker to the next person.
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1897 A. Hartshorne Old Eng. Glasses 68 Touching the Passglas, its usual type was a tall cylindrical vessel..spaced, by fine wheeled stringings, into divisions for measuring and controlling the drinking.
1897 A. Hartshorne Old Eng. Glasses 81 Certain rare Pass glasses are ornamented with figures of knaves from playing cards.
1907 E. Dillon Glass xvi. 273 The tall pass-glass..is dated 1662.
1965 A. von Saldern German Enameled Glass 145 Cylindrical Stangen with horizontal rings in multicolored enamel—so-called Pass glasses..are derived from similar glasses with applied rigaree bands or spirals.
1999 Boston Globe (Nexis) 27 Jan. (Living) c1 A passglas, a sort of measuring cup used in a drinking game that required players to keep swilling until the remaining wine hit a mark on the glass precisely.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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