glassworks

[glas-wurks, glahs-]

noun

(usually used with a singular verb)

plural

glassworks 

1. a factory where glass is made.

glassworks

/ ˈɡlɑːsˌwɜːks /

noun

1. (functioning as singular) a factory for the moulding of glass

Word History and Origins

Origin of glassworks¹

1620–30; glass + works (in the sense “manufacturing establishment”)

Example Sentences

In the glassworks and watercolors that he keeps in the studio where he has lived since the early 2000s, no religious motifs can be seen.

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We wouldn’t be talking about Seattle art if we didn’t include some glassworks.

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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.

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If you miss the presentation, TAM’s other galleries contain treasures of Northwest landscape paintings, Pilchuck School glassworks, and contemporary Indigenous portraiture.

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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.

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