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windowglass en · NOUN

Etymology

From window + glass.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A windowpane; the glass comprising a windowpane; the windowpanes in a building (collectively).
   • […] the house was completed save for the windowglass and the ironware which they could not make by hand […] 1936, William Faulkner, chapter 2, in Absalom, Absalom!, New York: Vintage, published 1990, page 28:
   • Now we behold the embers flee About the firelit hearth; and see Our faces painted as we pass, Like pictures, on the window-glass. 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, “North-west Passage: Good Night”, in A Child’s Garden of Verses, London: Longmans, Green & Co, page 50:
   • At first he contented himself by flattening his nose against the window-glasses of his study, and looking what the Englander was about. 1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Dorothea”, in The Confessions of Fitz-Boodle; and Some Passages in the Life of Major Gahagan, New York: Appleton, page 138:
   • She stared out the window of the bus, or she slept with her forehead pressed against the window glass […] 2015, John Irving, chapter 21, in Avenue of Mysteries, New York: Simon & Schuster, published 2016, page 291:
   • “There was no noise as of something being thrown through the glass just before the explosion: and there’s no broken window-glass inside the room. The screen was over it, too, so we can say the pineapple wasn’t chucked in through the window.” 1929, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 18, in The Dain Curse:

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