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glassworks

[ glas-wurks, glahs- ]

noun

(usually used with a singular verb)
plural glassworks.
  1. a factory where glass is made.


glassworks

/ ˈɡɑːˌɜː /

noun

  1. functioning as singular a factory for the moulding of glass
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of glassworks1

1620–30; glass + works (in the sense “manufacturing establishment”)
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In the glassworks and watercolors that he keeps in the studio where he has lived since the early 2000s, no religious motifs can be seen.

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We wouldn’t be talking about Seattle art if we didn’t include some glassworks.

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After all, the very Christmas ball itself — that ubiquitous ornament found on trees all over the planet — traces its origins to a glassworks in the Vosges.

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If you miss the presentation, TAM’s other galleries contain treasures of Northwest landscape paintings, Pilchuck School glassworks, and contemporary Indigenous portraiture.

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The gleefully overdone, unapologetically lavish glassworks on view in “Sargent, Whistler and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano” offer nothing short of visual joy.

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