Depression glass


Depression glass

n. Machine-pressed, tinted glassware mass-produced during the 1920s and 1930s.
[From its being manufactured during the Depression.]

Depres′sion glass`


n. machine-pressed, tinted glassware produced in the U.S. from the late 1920s to the 1940s.

Depression glass

An after-the-fact term coined to describe inexpensive machine-made glassware produced during the Depression years of the 1930s.