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Brewer’s Dictionary
> Glass
Glasgow Magistrate (
A
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Glass Breaker (
A
).
CONTENTS
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
E. Cobham Brewer
1810–1897
. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Glass
is from the Celtic
glas
(bluishgreen), the colour produced by the woad employed by the ancient Britons in dyeing their bodies. Pliny calls it
glastrum,
and Cæsar
vitrum.
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Glasgow Magistrate (
A
).
Glass Breaker (
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