glassine
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of glassine
Example Sentences
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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
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
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 Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)
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