glass window
A window filled with glass.
| 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 252 b, Yf thou se ony crucifix..or suche other lyke picture in ony glaswyndowe. 1532 More Confut. Tindale Wks. 597/2 He..therby willingly suffred the deathe of sinne to entre into hys heart by the glasse windowes of hys eyen. 1664 Power Exp. Philos. 43 The very Stancheons and Panes in the Glass-windows. 1667 Dryden Wild Gallant Prol. 10 He grows to break glass-windows in the end. 1670 Ray Prov. 11 Who hath glass-windows of his own must take heed how he throws stones at his house. 1726 Amherst Terræ Fil. xliv. 235 Walk in and see..are not these fine new painted altar-pieces and glass-windows! 1838 Dickens O. Twist xxvii, A light shining through the glass-window of the little parlour. |
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| 1647 R. Stapylton Juvenal 55 Borne in her close and large glasse-window'd chaire. |