Definition of "hourglasses" [hourglasses]

• Plural form of hourglass. (noun)

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• "I saw small, clean factories making small, quiet wind turbines resembling hourglasses and window fans."
• "I like hourglasses, maps, eighteenth-century typography, the taste of coffee and the prose of Stevenson; he shares these preferences, but in a vain way that turns them into the attributes of an actor."
• "Sometimes, flocks shift in shape from globes to hourglasses, thickening and thinning in the atmosphere."