glasseries

Noun

glassery (countable and uncountable, plural glasseries)

1. (countable) A business that works with glass or glassware; glassworks.
   • We went right through the lifeless, silent streets to a wrecked glassery away beyond the canal.1918, Reginald John Farrer, The Void of War: Letters from Three Fronts, page 199
2. A building or group of buildings made largely of glass windows.
   • The Hotel Marlborough stands ugly and unloved in a mean, sleazy street in midtown Manhattan between the tasteless black glassery of Sixth Avenue and the honest vulgarity of Broadway.1975, Denis Pitts, This City is Ours: A Novel, page 36
3. (countable) A room with many windows; sunroom.
   • Beyond the living-room is a glassery, low-studded and heavily beamed.1922, The Scroll of Phi Delta Theta - Volume 46, Issue 4, page 377
4. (countable) A place for storing or displaying glassware.
   • Mr. Sturt is much pleased with the glass case article (see p. 318), and permits me to say that his glasseries are open to inspection.1863, The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, page 390
5. (uncountable) Glassware.
   • The treasures of the loom, the spotless laundering, the marvels of glassery, the products of the most skillful gold and silversmiths, the finest table cutlery, the treasures of porcelain, the sparkling liquors, are spread artistically on heavy tables, rich with massiveness and exxquisite carving.1880, American Journal of Dental Science, page 408
6. (uncountable) Skill in working with glass.
   • No degree was ever conferred on a student unless he could demonstrate sufficient aptitude in "glassery" or as a "glass man."1924, The Czechoslovak Review - Volume 8, page 233