glass block

American  

noun

1. a translucent, hollow or solid block of glass for glazing openings or constructing partitions, usually square on the face, with the outer surfaces treated in any of various ways.

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Example Sentences

With four bedrooms and three bathrooms, the house had walls and floors of concrete complemented by a palette of redwood, teak, fir and glass block.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2025

The company is closing the plant because it’s getting out of the glass block business.

From Washington Times • May 11, 2016

There is simply no principled distinction between the processes occurring in the meaty glob in your cranium and the processes occurring in the little silicon, metal, and glass block that is your iPhone.

From Slate • Feb. 29, 2016

Meanwhile, a sleek, nine-story glass block, designed by Renzo Piano, was rising right across Broadway.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 5, 2015

This glittering glass block, especially built to cater to the tourist trade from Earth, was Earth-conditioned inside.

From The World with a Thousand Moons by Hamilton, Edmond