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glassines

glassines is the plural of glassine.

Meaning of glassine

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.

Questions about glassines

What is glassines the plural of?
Glassines is the plural of glassine.

Words near glassines in the dictionary

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

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