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strass
1[ stras ]
noun
- a flint glass with a high lead content, used to imitate gemstones.
strass
2[ stras ]
noun
- silk waste produced in making skeins.
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Origin of strass1
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At No. 58 lived Strass, the inventor of the simili-diamonds.
The artist had depicted him in a kaftan of crimson hue with large strass buttons; in his hand he held some sort of unusual flower.
Of the transparent glass paste termed Stras or Strass we have already spoken.
In the glass known as strass, used to make imitation Diamonds, the adamantine luster is well imitated.
The first little town that reckons in the Zillerthal is Strass, a very unpretending place, and then Schlitters.
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