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”)
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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
Brick, porcelain and glassworks employ large numbers of the inhabitants.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various
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