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strass

  • /stɹas/

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Borrowed from French strass, after its inventor, the 18th-century Alsatian jeweler Georg Friedrich Strass.

noun strasses

  1. countable, uncountable A rhinestone, brilliant glass used in the manufacture of artificial paste gemstones, consisting essentially of a complex borosilicate of lead and potassium.

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@misc{strass_2026,
  title = {strass},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/strass},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}