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De·pres·sion glass  audio  (d-prshn) KEY 

NOUN:
Machine-pressed, tinted glassware mass-produced during the 1920s and 1930s.

ETYMOLOGY:
After the Great Depression, a period of severe economic hardship during the 1930s


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