plate glass
a soda-lime-silica glass formed by rolling the hot glass into a plate that is subsequently ground and polished, used in large windows, mirrors, etc.
Origin of plate glass
1Other words from plate glass
- plate-glass, plateglass, adjective
Words Nearby plate glass
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How to use plate glass in a sentence
At the lower or west end of the room the wall had been removed and replaced by a single immense pane of plate glass.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonEven the shops that were closed offered, through wide expanses of plate-glass, hints of hidden riches.
Summer | Edith WhartonI have taken care to keep them under lock and key, behind plate glass, for more than fifty years.
The Medici Boots | Pearl Norton SwetYes, there they sit; and others, perhaps, besides Fitz have cast a sheep's-eye through those enormous plate-glass windowpanes.
A Little Dinner at Timmins's | William Makepeace ThackerayThat stuff must be a hundred times more transparent than the finest plate glass!
Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope | Victor Appleton
British Dictionary definitions for plate glass
glass formed into a thin sheet by rolling, used for windows
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