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Tumblers (Drinking glasses)

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Topical headingTumblers (Drinking glasses)
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Found inWork cat.: Tumbler, via the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute museum objects digital image collection, Sept. 9, 2005.
Newman, H. An illustrated dictionary of glass, 1977 (Tumbler, a drinking glass without a stem, foot, or handle, and having a flat base on which it rests. It is usually of circular section, cylindrical, waisted, barrel-shaped or with slides that taper slightly inward toward the base. They are of various sizes and styles, but they do not have a flared mouth)
AAT online, Feb. 2, 2006 (tumblers (drinking glasses), drinking vessels without a stem, foot, or handle and technically having a rounded bottom; also includes similar forms with heavy, flattened bottoms)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Collections, via WWW, Feb. 12, 2005: Accession no. 1978.931 (Tumbler (one of eight): One of a set of eight colorless cylindrical tumblers that flare slightly at rim)
OED Online, Apr. 24, 2006 (Tumbler, a drinking cup, originally having a rounded or pointed bottom, so that it could not be set down until emptied; often of silver or gold; now, a tapering cylindrical, or barrel-shaped, glass cup without a handle or foot, having a heavy flat bottom)