strass
1a flint glass with a high lead content, used to imitate gemstones.
Origin of strass
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Other definitions for strass (2 of 2)
silk waste produced in making skeins.
Origin of strass
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How to use strass in a sentence
At No. 58 lived strass, the inventor of the simili-diamonds.
Historic Paris | Jetta S. WolffThe artist had depicted him in a kaftan of crimson hue with large strass buttons; in his hand he held some sort of unusual flower.
The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories | Ivn TurgnieffOf the transparent glass paste termed Stras or strass we have already spoken.
Jewellery | H. Clifford Smith,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.
The Valleys of Tirol | R. H. Busk
British Dictionary definitions for strass
/ (stræs) /
jewellery another word for paste 1 (def. 6)
Origin of strass
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