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handblown

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Alternative forms

  • hand-blown

Etymology

From hand + blown.

Adjective

handblown (not comparable)

  1. (glassmaking) Blown by hand, without the use of machinery
    • 2007 June 3, David Colman, “When in the Netherlands...”, in New York Times:
      But of all the extravagances that reflected the country’s new wealth and glory, Mr. Giunta became most fixated on the bouquets’ vases: typically baroque handblown Venetian goblets of sap-green glass.
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