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water glasses


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Preferred Term

water glasses

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Drinking glasses intended for water; also a term applied in 18th-century England to a glass of cylindrical form to distinguish it from a tumbler, which has an incurving base.

Variations

water glass

glasses, water

water-glasses

verres à eau

verre à eau

Broader Term

drinking glasses

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