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glassine

glassine noun: a light paper used as interleaving between artworks or stamp album pages.

Noun

glassine (countable and uncountable, plural glassines)

  1. A light paper used as interleaving between artworks or stamp album pages.
    • Each illustration was protected by a glassine page that had to be turned delicately.2024, Scott Alexander Howard, The Other Valley, Atlantic Books (2025), page 7
  2. Smooth, non-absorbing, grease- and moisture-resistant, supercalendered paper.
  3. (usually) A small stamp packet made from glassine paper.

Forms of glassine

pluralglassines

Origin of glassine

From glass + -ine.

Questions about glassine

What does glassine mean?
Glassine means a light paper used as interleaving between artworks or stamp album pages.
What part of speech is glassine?
Glassine is a noun.
What is the plural of glassine?
The plural of glassine is glassines.

Words near glassine in the dictionary

  1. glassified
  2. glassifies
  3. glassify
  4. glassifying
  5. glassily
  6. glassine
  7. glassines
  8. glassiness
  9. glassing
  10. glassings
  11. glassinomer

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