glassworks
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of glassworks
1620–30; glass + works (in the sense “manufacturing establishment”)
Example Sentences
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After a hearty breakfast, we caught the vaporetto to Murano, the outlying island famous for its glassworks.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026
We wouldn’t be talking about Seattle art if we didn’t include some glassworks.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2022
The gleefully overdone, unapologetically lavish glassworks on view in “Sargent, Whistler and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano” offer nothing short of visual joy.
From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2021
A community-based glassworks has been set up to help train the next generation of glass and crystal craft workers.
From BBC • Oct. 2, 2021
Commercially speaking, the output of the chemical works of this great company is at least as important now as the output of its glassworks.
From France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 by Hurlbert, William Henry
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