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| crystal |
glass or glassware of exceptional quality and brilliance. [1/7 definitions] |
| Depression glass |
glassware mass-produced, molded, and usu. colored during the Depression of the 1930s, and now considered a collector's item. |
| dinnerware |
dishes, glassware, and silverware used in serving a meal. [1/2 definitions] |
| fluting |
a decorative pattern of long, rounded, parallel grooves, as on columns or some glassware. [1/3 definitions] |
| open stock |
a type of merchandising in which single pieces of goods usu. sold in sets, such as flatware, glassware, or china, are kept in stock to be sold individually as replacement or supplements. |
| Pyrex |
trademark for glassware that resists heat and chemical abrasiveness, used esp. in cookware and laboratory utensils. |
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