Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A maker of stained glass.
  • noun A glass-painter.

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Examples

  • As both a glass-painter and a glass-stainer, Peckitt used color in different ways to create designs. reference The glass base or substrate could be clear or colored; other, different-colored glasses could be fired onto it.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Amid renewed thanks and with promises to come again, the two squires bade their leave of the old Italian glass-stainer and his daughter.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • Amid renewed thanks and with promises to come again, the two squires bade their leave of the old Italian glass-stainer and his daughter.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • Amid renewed thanks and with promises to come again, the two squires bade their leave of the old Italian glass-stainer and his daughter.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • IN one of the windows of the cathedral at Ulm a mediaeval glass-stainer has represented the Almighty as busily engaged in creating the animals, and there has just left the divine hands an elephant fully accoutred, with armour, harness, and housings, ready-for war.

    A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom 1896

  • In these representations the painter and the glass-stainer vied with the sculptor.

    A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom 1896

  • Amid renewed thanks and with promises to come again, the two squires bade their leave of the old Italian glass-stainer and his daughter.

    The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • Amid renewed thanks and with promises to come again, the two squires bade their leave of the old Italian glass-stainer and his daughter.

    The White Company 1890

  • Walpole was a prose paper entitled "T.e Ryse of Peyncteynge yn Englande, wroten by T. Rowleie, 1469, for Mastre Canynge," and containing _inter alia_, the following extraordinary "anecdote of painting" about Afflem, an Anglo-Saxon glass-stainer of Edmond's reign who was taken prisoner by the Danes.

    A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

  • The nymph in furred raiment who seduces Hylas is conceived frankly in the spirit of Teutonic romance; her song is of a garden [226] enclosed, such as that with which the old church glass-stainer surrounds the mystic bride of the song of songs.

    Aesthetic Poetry Walter Pater 1866

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