Glassery
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A business that works with glass or glassware; glassworks. countable
"We went right through the lifeless, silent streets to a wrecked glassery away beyond the canal."
- 2 A building or group of buildings made largely of glass windows. countable, uncountable
"The Hotel Marlborough stands ugly and unloved in a mean, sleazy street in midtown Manhattan between the tasteless black glassery of Sixth Avenue and the honest vulgarity of Broadway."
- 3 A room with many windows; sunroom. countable
"Beyond the living-room is a glassery, low-studded and heavily beamed."
- 4 A place for storing or displaying glassware. countable
"Mr. Sturt is much pleased with the glass case article (see p. 318), and permits me to say that his glasseries are open to inspection."
- 5 Glassware. uncountable
"The treasures of the loom, the spotless laundering, the marvels of glassery, the products of the most skillful gold and silversmiths, the finest table cutlery, the treasures of porcelain, the sparkling liquors, are spread artistically on heavy tables, rich with massiveness and exxquisite carving."
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- 6 Skill in working with glass. uncountable
"No degree was ever conferred on a student unless he could demonstrate sufficient aptitude in "glassery" or as a "glass man.""
Example
More examples"We went right through the lifeless, silent streets to a wrecked glassery away beyond the canal."
Etymology
From glass + -ery.
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