glassblower

glassblower

English

Etymology

glass +‎ blower

Noun

glassblower (plural glassblowers)

1. A person skilled in the art of glassblowing.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎:

     But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.

Synonyms

• gaffer, glassmith

Translations

person skilled in the art of glassblowing

Bulgarian: стъклодув m (stǎkloduv) Czech: sklář (cs) m Esperanto: (male or female) vitroblovisto, (male) virvitroblovisto, (female) vitroblovistino Finnish: lasinpuhaltaja French: souffleur de verre m, souffleuse de verre f German: Glasbläser (de) m, Glasbläserin f Italian: buffatore m Kazakh: шыны үрлеуші (şını ürlewşi)

Luxembourgish: Glasbléiser m Norwegian: Bokmål: glassblåser m Nynorsk: glasblåsar m Romanian: suflător de sticlă m, sticlar (ro) m Russian: стеклоду́в (ru) m (steklodúv) Volapük: (♂♀) glätibladan (vo), (♂) glätihibladan, (♀) glätijibladan