glassworks
Americannoun
PLURAL
glassworksnoun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of glassworks
1620–30; glass + works (in the sense “manufacturing establishment”)
Example Sentences
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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.
From Washington Post
If you miss the presentation, TAM’s other galleries contain treasures of Northwest landscape paintings, Pilchuck School glassworks, and contemporary Indigenous portraiture.
From Seattle Times
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
A community-based glassworks has been set up to help train the next generation of glass and crystal craft workers.
From BBC
An accomplished artist, she operated her own glassworks studio and continues to sell some of her art through the bookstore.
From Washington Times
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