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glassine

American  
[gla-seen] / glæˈsin /

noun

  1. a strong, thin, glazed, semitransparent paper, often made into small bags, used for packaging foods, for book jackets, etc.


glassine British  
/ ɡlæˈsiːn /

noun

  1. a glazed translucent paper used for book jackets

"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

Etymology

Origin of glassine

First recorded in 1915–20; glass + -ine 1


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When the keyboard is used, Ms. Giannouli and Mr. Bärtsch employ a range of attacks that yield everything from a dark, gauzy tone to a glassine sparkle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Flying across the stage, she whips noisy glassine paper around, her face transformed to look less like a human than the husk of a ghost.

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2022

Our naem khao arrived in a bowl: Fried balls of jasmine rice, fragrant with coconut nestled against aromatic sausage, lettuce leaves, tender sprigs of cilantro, and glassine fried makrut lime leaves and bird’s eye chile.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 27, 2021

Johnson sampled musks and decided on a three-dollar glassine of “Bleue Nile,” while King and Smith contemplated buying their own “Black Lives Matter” shirts.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 8, 2017

It was of sulphite fiber inside, and glassine outside; a style afterward reversed, so as to have the glassine the inner tube.

From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

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