green glass
noun
glass of low quality, colored green by impurities in the materials from which it is made.
Origin of green glass
First recorded in 1650–60
Words nearby green glass
Example sentences from the Web for green glass
Some offered me oranges, some bananas, some milk in a green-glass bottle, and one of them wished me to buy a monkey.
The Complete Works of Josh Billings |Henry W. ShawWhich, he had retorted, was a relief from eating turtle steak off green-glass dinner plates.
The Gorgeous Girl |Nalbro BartleyI therefore wrought with chloride of lead, using a green-glass tube, formed as in fig. 72.
Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 |Michael FaradayThere is no board-fence,And never a Goblin with green-glass eyes!
British Dictionary definitions for green glass
green glass
noun
glass in its natural colour, usually greenish as a result of metallic substances in the raw materials