lead glass
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- noun
- /lɛd ɡlæs/
- Specialized
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- For the exhibition, the museum displayed several intricate sculptures made of lead glass.
- lead glass windows
- lead glass and metal panel
- lead glass, height 3 inches
Examples
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Looks like the glass, all the leaded glass, it's all there.
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Those are the lead-glass windows.
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These included part of a porcelain tea bowl foot, a lead-glass baluster stem from a wine glass, and a small fragment from a wine bottle.
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On one of the later dives, Jim decided to go back into the first-class spaces on "D" deck and have "Mir-2" shine lights through those leaded-glass windows from the outside.
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To quote the Atomic Rockets page, if you see the blue Cherenkov glow around an object in the air (not at the bottom of a swimming pool reactor), you'd better be viewing it through several inches of lead glass or you have already taken a lethal dose; it is far too late to do anything about it; you are already dead.
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The artist crafted an exquisite vase from lead glass that sparkled beautifully in the sunlight.
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The new line of lead glass crystal stemware enhances the elegance of any dining table.
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Morphology
The meaning 'glass containing lead oxide' is directly derivable from combining 'lead' (the metal) with 'glass' as a noun–noun compound indicating material composition; this compositional pattern (material + object) is common cross-linguistically. A B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer that 'lead glass' is glass made with or containing lead.
Etymology
The noun lead glass comes from a simple making method: makers added a little lead to hot glass, which made the glass heavier, more sparkly and clearer. That's why it is used for fine bowls, chandeliers and lenses, so the name tells you the glass was made with added lead.