glasswork
noun
the manufacture of glass and glassware.
glass-worker
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a word derived from
glasswork.
Example Sentences
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I would rather keep my own, and marry a glass-worker, even if I were to be sold!
From Marietta A Maid of Venice by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
This was then carefully carried to a glass-worker to be inclosed in a bulb, and at the first movement he broke it, and the work must be done over and done better.
From Steam, Steel and Electricity by James W. Steele
They told me that a glass-worker was doing marvelous things here, and I heard a twelvemonth since that you were leaving Normandy for England.
From In the Days of the Guild by Louise Lamprey
A gentleman glass-worker, named Abraham de la Serre, was, as it were, the Samuel of this new school of prophets.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 by Robert Black
Bok took Parrish to Mr. Tiffany's studio; the two artists talked together, the glass-worker showed the canvas-painter his work, with the result that the two became enthusiastic to co-operate in trying the experiment.
From The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after by Edward William Bok
