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English
Etymology
From window + glass.
Noun
windowglass (countable and uncountable, plural windowglasses)
- A windowpane; the glass comprising a windowpane; the windowpanes in a building (collectively).
1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Dorothea”, in The Confessions of Fitz-Boodle; and Some Passages in the Life of Major Gahagan, New York: Appleton, page 138:At first he contented himself by flattening his nose against the window-glasses of his study, and looking what the Englander was about.
1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, “North-west Passage: Good Night”, in A Child’s Garden of Verses, London: Longmans, Green & Co, page 50:Now we behold the embers flee
About the firelit hearth; and see
Our faces painted as we pass,
Like pictures, on the window-glass.
1929, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 18, in The Dain Curse:“There was no noise as of something being thrown through the glass just before the explosion: and there’s no broken window-glass inside the room. The screen was over it, too, so we can say the pineapple wasn’t chucked in through the window.”
1936, William Faulkner, chapter 2, in Absalom, Absalom!, New York: Vintage, published 1990, page 28:[…] the house was completed save for the windowglass and the ironware which they could not make by hand […]
2015, John Irving, chapter 21, in Avenue of Mysteries, New York: Simon & Schuster, published 2016, page 291:She stared out the window of the bus, or she slept with her forehead pressed against the window glass […]