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Water glasses

Scope note

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.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

300043244

Broader Terms used

drinking glasses

Equivalent Terms used

water glass

Created

13yrs ago

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