glassworks
Americannoun
plural
glassworksnoun
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
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
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 • Nov. 24, 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
These give employment to no fewer than 3,300 workmen, independently of those employed by the company at its various glassworks in the glass manufacture.
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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