windowglass

English

Alternative forms

window-glass
window glass

Etymology

window +‎ glass

Noun

windowglass (countable and uncountable, plural windowglasses)

A windowpane; the glass comprising a windowpane; the windowpanes in a building (collectively).
- 1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Confessions of Fitz-Boodle; and Some Passages in the Life of Major Gahagan, New York: Appleton, “Dorothea,” p. 138,
  At first he contented himself by flattening his nose against the window-glasses of his study, and looking what the Englander was about.
- 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, “North-west Passage: Good Night” in A Child’s Garden of Verses, London: Longmans, Green & Co., p. 50,
  Now we behold the embers flee
  About the firelit hearth; and see
  Our faces painted as we pass,
  Like pictures, on the window-glass.
- 1929, Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse, Chapter 18,
  “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.”
- 1936, William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! New York: Vintage, 1990, Chapter 2, p. 28,
  […] the house was completed save for the windowglass and the ironware which they could not make by hand […]
- 2015, John Irving, Avenue of Mysteries, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016, Chapter 21, p. 291,
  She stared out the window of the bus, or she slept with her forehead pressed against the window glass […]

单词	windowglass
释义	windowglass English Alternative forms window-glass window glass Etymology window +‎ glass Noun windowglass (countable and uncountable, plural windowglasses) A windowpane; the glass comprising a windowpane; the windowpanes in a building (collectively). 1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Confessions of Fitz-Boodle; and Some Passages in the Life of Major Gahagan, New York: Appleton, “Dorothea,” p. 138, At first he contented himself by flattening his nose against the window-glasses of his study, and looking what the Englander was about. 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, “North-west Passage: Good Night” in A Child’s Garden of Verses, London: Longmans, Green & Co., p. 50, Now we behold the embers flee About the firelit hearth; and see Our faces painted as we pass, Like pictures, on the window-glass. 1929, Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse, Chapter 18, “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.” 1936, William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! New York: Vintage, 1990, Chapter 2, p. 28, […] the house was completed save for the windowglass and the ironware which they could not make by hand […] 2015, John Irving, Avenue of Mysteries, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016, Chapter 21, p. 291, She stared out the window of the bus, or she slept with her forehead pressed against the window glass […]
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