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glazery

glazery noun: the art of installing windows.

Noun

glazery (uncountable)

  1. The art of installing windows.
    • In the Conſtruction, regard is had to the Firmneſs of the Foundation, the Strength of the Maſonry, the Quality of the Stone, Sand, Lime, and Mortar; or, to ſpeak properly, the Conſtruction, rather, conſiſts of ſeveral diſtinct parts; as the Maſonry, Carpentry, Joinery, Smithery, Glazery, Roofing...1732, Sebastian Le Clerc, translated by [Ephraim] Chambers, A Treatise of Architecture, with Remarks and Observations. […], London: […] Richard Ware […], page 2
    • […] he, mean time, ran into the town, and procured the glaſs, on the receipt of which I inſtantly threw him ten more piſtoles. Before the hour of noon and viſitation came, every thing was once more reinſtated, my glazery performed to a miracle, and the life of my worthy Gefhardt preſerved!1795, Thomas Holcroft, transl., The Life of Baron Frederic Trenck; Containing His Adventures; His Cruel and Excessive Sufferings, During Ten Years Imprisonment, at the Fortress of Magdeburg, by...

Origin of glazery

From glaze + -ery.

Questions about glazery

What does glazery mean?
Glazery means the art of installing windows.
What part of speech is glazery?
Glazery is a noun.

Words near glazery in the dictionary

  1. glazeds
  2. glazen
  3. glazer
  4. glazers
  5. Glazert Water
  6. glazery
  7. glazes
  8. glazes over
  9. glazes up
  10. glazework
  11. glazier

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