plate glass
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of plate glass
First recorded in 1720–30
Example Sentences
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We could see into that Holiday Inn through its plate glass windows and observe cops walking around its lobby with billy clubs, keeping a watchful eye on us.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025
“Not one plate glass window out. Incredible,” she wrote on X. “And I was here for the three major quakes in 1992 and the last few December ones.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2024
Amid the glittering, plate glass and steel skyscrapers of modern Doha, Hamas officials have been sitting down with Qatari diplomats from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to work through the complex issue of hostage releases.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2023
The little cottage is safer, as it happens, than the architectural marvels perched on the rocky seaward verges of Big Sur, one of which took a 50-foot wave straight through its plate glass window.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2023
A vertical wave of plate glass breaks against it.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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