glassworker

American  

[glas-wur-ker, glahs-] / ˈglæsˌwɜr kər, ˈglɑs- /

noun

1. a person who makes or does glasswork.

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Etymology

Origin of glassworker

First recorded in 1835–45; glass + worker

Example Sentences

Even tually, the elder Luciani was able to settle down as a glassworker on the small island of Murano in the Venetian lagoon.

From Time Magazine Archive

The glassworker here in the interior had the same task to perform.

From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Adams, Henry

A foreign glassworker searching for the books of a reputed wizard who made the Hildesheim bronze they are so proud of.

From Masters of the Guild by Lamprey, L.

The border of the southern window does not count as it should; something is wrong with it and a little study shows that the builder, and not the glassworker, was to blame.

From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Adams, Henry

The twelfth- century glassworker would sooner have worn a landscape on his back than have costumed his church with it; he would as soon have decorated his floors with painted holes as his walls.

From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Adams, Henry