glazier

[gley-zher]

noun

1. a person who fits windows or the like with glass or panes of glass.

glazier

/ ˈɡleɪzɪə /

noun

1. a person who glazes windows, etc

Other Word Forms

• glaziery noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of glazier¹

First recorded in 1350–1400, glazier is from the Middle English word glasier. See glaze, -ier ¹

Example Sentences

But the culprit turned out to be an Italian glazier who had helped frame the museum's paintings and knew his way round the building.

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The glaziers had more intimate contact with the portrait than anyone else in France.

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He was working as a glazier and playing a limited-contact flag version of Aussie rules with friends when he was introduced to Chapman.

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Though he was raised by an impoverished working-class couple—his foster father was a glazier—it turns out that his birth father was a general and his mother was an aristocrat.

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His father was a glazier — a tradesman who works with glass — and his mother was a cleaner, according to the London Daily Telegraph.

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