Meaning of glassery | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A business that works with glass or glassware; glassworks.
   countable
2. A building or group of buildings made largely of glass windows.
   countable, uncountable
3. A room with many windows; sunroom.
   countable
4. A place for storing or displaying glassware.
   countable
5. Glassware.
   uncountable
6. Skill in working with glass.
   uncountable

Examples

“We went right through the lifeless, silent streets to a wrecked glassery away beyond the canal.”

“In San Francisco a large glassery is now operated to put up Kraft-Phoenix Cheese and Wright's Mayonnaise and Salad Dressing.”

“I know I stayed fixedly wherever I was and tried to replay what Nelson had said, to be certain he wasn't saying something as innocent and local as that we could stay an extra couple of hours at the glassery if I sent to the kitchen for some soup and scones, rather than going back for supper to the octagon.”

“She’s owned her own glassery in South Superior for six years where she sells necklaces, picture frames, sun catchers, wedding invitations, and much more.”

“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.”

“A 38-story luxury pioneer at the west edge of Clinton. A notch above most of the fervored glasseries of 21st-century Manhattan.”

“Beyond the living-room is a glassery, low-studded and heavily beamed.”

“Beyond the living room is a “glassery” or sun-parlor with heavily beamed ceiling and a rugged stone fireplace.”

“Cantilevers dripping with flowering creeper, egg-domes mellowed with ochre lichens, glasseries shadowed by time and weather to brood the conspiracy of old conservatories.”

“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.”

“But throughout the morning there are about three or four who wander in and out carrying glasses from the glassery to the dining-room and performing duties which are mentioned in the course of the play.”

“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.”

“In the gracing of the tables of banquets, among the glassery, the cutlery, the gold and silver plate, the art of the confectioner, and the general architectural production of the cuisine, celery is never out of place.”

“A collection of old reagents, dyes and glassery is also exposed.”

“No degree was ever conferred on a student unless he could demonstrate sufficient aptitude in "glassery" or as a "glass man."”

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