Meaning of windowglass | Babel Free

Definitions

A windowpane; the glass comprising a windowpane; the windowpanes in a building (collectively).

countable, uncountable

Examples

“At first he contented himself by flattening his nose against the window-glasses of his study, and looking what the Englander was about.”

“Now we behold the embers flee About the firelit hearth; and see Our faces painted as we pass, Like pictures, on the window-glass.”

““There was no noise as of something being thrown through the glass just before the explosion: and there’s no broken window-glass inside the room. The screen was over it, too, so we can say the pineapple wasn’t chucked in through the window.””

“[…] the house was completed save for the windowglass and the ironware which they could not make by hand […]”

“She stared out the window of the bus, or she slept with her forehead pressed against the window glass […]”

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