garden glass

English

Noun

garden glass (plural garden glasses)

1. A bell glass for covering plants.
2. A globe of dark-coloured glass, mounted on a pedestal, to reflect surrounding objects; much used as an ornament in gardens in Germany.

Quotations

1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Gardener’s Daughter; or, the Pictures”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:

The garden stretches southward. In the midst
A cedar spread his dark-green layers of shade.
The garden-glasses shone, and momently
The twinkling laurel scatter'd silver lights.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “garden glass”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• laggardness