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Tiffany glass

 
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n.
Stained or iridescent glass of a kind popular in the early 1900s for vases and lampshades.

[After Louis Comfort TIFFANY.]


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Lamps and other glass objects created by Louis Tiffany, an American artisan of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These objects are greatly prized and have been much imitated.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a kind of opalescent colored glass that was used in the early 1900s for stained-glass windows and lamps


 
 

 

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Dictionary. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2007, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
Fine Arts Dictionary. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin. All rights reserved.  Read more
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