glassworks
Americannoun
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glassworks
plural
noun
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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
He was young and could barely pay his studio’s rent, but he was energetic and the faith he put in his glassworks was enough to devote his life to them.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2023
After all, the very Christmas ball itself — that ubiquitous ornament found on trees all over the planet — traces its origins to a glassworks in the Vosges.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2021
In May, I attended the Ethereal Summit, a conference held in a former industrial glassworks in Maspeth, Queens.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 15, 2018
He was a commissionaire at some glassworks which stand opposite to the offices of a journal with which I have been now intimately concerned for some years.
From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by David Christie Murray
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