bell jar

noun

Definition of bell jar

: a bell-shaped usually glass vessel designed to cover objects or to contain gases or a vacuum

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The sticks that protrude are enclosed in glass bell jars, a cheeky allusion to taxidermy displays. — Catherine Romano, WSJ, "5 Pet Homes That Humans Will Envy," 26 Oct. 2018 Discreetly cloistered in a 19th-century hôtel particulier on Paris’s Champs-Élysées, the Biologique Recherche store displays its creams under bell jars like rare specimens in a laboratory. — Marcia Desanctis, Vogue, "Can the Genes Responsible for Aging Be Altered by a Face Cream? These Skin-Care Companies Say Yes," 21 July 2018 While conversations rarely penetrate the bell jar of my self-containment, inventive forms of caregiving do. — Susan Gubar, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Imaginative caregiving for the cancer patient," 11 May 2018 First, Scotch is combined with Chartreuse; then the mixture is sprayed with a peaty tincture and placed under a bell jar, which a bartender proceeds to pump full of wood smoke. — David Kortava, The New Yorker, "The Seventies Reign at the Honeywell," 7 Apr. 2018

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