strass

1
[ stras ]

noun
  1. a flint glass with a high lead content, used to imitate gemstones.

Origin of strass

1
1810–20; <German, named after J. Strasser, 18th-century German jeweler who invented it

Words Nearby strass

Other definitions for strass (2 of 2)

strass2
[ stras ]

noun
  1. silk waste produced in making skeins.

Origin of strass

2
1855–60; <French strasse<Italian straccio, noun derivative of stracciare to tear <Vulgar Latin *extractiare, derivative of Latin extractus (see extract)

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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. Wolff
  • 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.

    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.

British Dictionary definitions for strass

strass

/ (stræs) /


noun
  1. jewellery another word for paste 1 (def. 6)

Origin of strass

1
C19: German, named after J. Strasser, 18th-century German jeweller who invented it

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