glassine
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of glassine
Example Sentences
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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
The detective strode into the walk-in evidence vault and, wearing latex gloves, produced nearly three dozen crisp new $100 bills, each in a glassine envelope.
From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2017
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
Each of the 63 images is a variation on a single object: a small, crumpled glassine bag stamped with an often exotic or bleakly satirical brand name.
From The Guardian • Oct. 5, 2014
He also found that glass makes the best container for coffee, with the tin can, and the foil-lined bag with an inner lining of glassine, not greatly inferior.
From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)
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