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glassworker

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

noun

  1. a person who makes or does glasswork.


Etymology

Origin of glassworker

First recorded in 1835–45; glass + worker

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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

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 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

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

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

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