snowglobes? snowdomes?

[Jonathan Lighter]

I saw some "domes" in the '50s.  They were hemispherical, filled with water and confetti-like "snow."

JL
Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at RCN.COM> wrote:
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>Jonathan Lighter opines:
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>"Snowglobes" should be globular. "Snowdomes" should be domes.
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>But "snow globes" is what I have always heard them called and called them,
>not "snow domes".
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>-- Mark
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I've seen domes, but they were solid glass and had some kind of
pictorial matter affixed to the bottom so that the dome was, in
effect, a magnifying glass. My late stepfather had one with a photo
of his first-born child, which had died in infancy. He used it as a
paperweight. I've never seen one that was hollow with "snow," nor do
I know of any special name for this item.

-Wilson


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