parison

English

Etymology

From French paraison, from parer (“pare”).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpæɹɪsən/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛɹəsən/

Noun

parison (plural parisons)

(glassblowing) A spherical mass of glass, rolled immediately after being taken out of the furnace.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day (Vintage 2007), page 278:
  The wineglasses were from a matched dozen, each having begun as a glowing parison at the end of some blowpipe over in Murano but days before.

Translations

primary mass in glassblowing

Finnish: aihio (fi), lasiaihio
French: paraison (fr) f

Russian: ба́ночка (ru) f (bánočka), пу́лька (ru) f (púlʹka)

Anagrams

asporin, pansori, soprani

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