ˈwine-glass
[f. wine n.1 + glass n.1 Cf. (M)LG., MHG. wînglas, (Du. wijnglas, G. weinglas), etc.]
a. A small drinking-glass for wine. Also = wineglassful.
Wine-glasses, which are characterized by having a stem and a foot, vary in shape (and, in some cases, in colour) according to the wine for which they are intended, and are distinguished as champagne glass, claret glass, port glass, etc.
| 1709 Lond. Gaz. No. 4595/4 Wine and Water Tumblers, Beer and Wine Glasses with Covers. 1786 J. Woodforde Diary 18 Aug. (1926) II. 264 She is to take a Wine Glass of the Mixture..every six Hours. 1846 Jewish Man., or Pract. Information Jewish & Mod. Cookery i. 2 Pour in a wine-glass of port-wine. 1856 Kane Arctic Expl. II. ii. 37, I am dealing these out to them by the wine⁓glass. 1882 Floyer Unexpl. Baluch. 331 We began with minute wine-glasses of raki, red wine, purple wine. |
b. attrib. Resembling a wine-glass in shape. c. Comb., as wineglass-cooler, wine-glass-shaped adj.
| 1851 Redding Wines (ed. 3) 370 Wine-glass coolers..should be laid on the table and the glasses reversed in them. 1884 Howells Silas Lapham i, A smooth piece of interval, with half a dozen good-sized wine-glass elms in it. 1907 M. C. F. Morris Nunburnholme 78 The..smaller bell, which was long and wineglass-shaped. 1908 Essex Rev. XVII. 6 An old-fashioned wine-glass pulpit, with reading-desk below. |
Hence ˈwineglassful, the contents of a full wine-glass; the amount that a wine-glass will hold, usually reckoned as 2 fluid ounces.
| 1824 Scott St. Ronan's vii, My venerated instructor..took a wine-glassful of old rum..every day after his dinner. 1884 M. Mackenzie Dis. Throat & Nose II. 352 A wineglassful of spirits of turpentine. |