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plate-glass

plate-glass adjective: made from plate glass.

Adjective

plate-glass (not comparable)

  1. Made from plate glass.
    • New plate-glass doors open on to a concourse that has been largely re-designed; ...1964 September, “Berwick is renovated”, in Modern Railways, page 207, photo caption
    • Saratovkin's shop was on Staropochtovaya, a quiet back street well away from the heavy traffic. It had no plate-glass windows, it was rather small and rather dark, but all Pyatigorsk, Yessentuki, and Zheleznovodsk knew it.1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 50

Phrases with plate-glass

Questions about plate-glass

What does plate-glass mean?
Plate-glass means made from plate glass.
What part of speech is plate-glass?
Plate-glass is an adjective.

Words near plate-glass in the dictionary

  1. plate up
  2. plate wheel
  3. plate wheels
  4. plate-carrier
  5. plate-carriers
  6. plate-glass
  7. plate-glass universities
  8. plate-glass university
  9. plate-out
  10. plate-spinning
  11. Platea

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