strass
English
Etymology
After its inventor, the 18th-century Alsatian jeweler Georg Friedrich Strass.
Noun
strass (countable and uncountable, plural strasses)
- A rhinestone, brilliant glass used in the manufacture of artificial paste gemstones, consisting essentially of a complex borosilicate of lead and potassium.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for strass in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stʁas/
Noun
strass m (uncountable)
- paste (lead crystal used as gemstone)
Further reading
- “strass” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Noun
strass m (invariable)
- paste (lead crystal used as gemstone)
Portuguese
Noun
strass m (uncountable)
- paste (glass containing lead, used to imitate diamonds)
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