Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The process of coloring glass during its manufacture, especially for the production of the glass used for colored or painted windows, or glass-painting.
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Examples
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In both aisles there is an interesting series of modern windows intended to memorialise the great names associated with the Church, the Borough of Southwark, and the history of E.gland -- all excellent specimens of the revived art of glass-staining, and all at present designed by Mr. C.E. Kempe.
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The opinion that glass-staining was invented at Tegernsee is erroneous, for before this in the ninth century stained-glass windows can be proved to have existed at St. Gall and in Westphalia.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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In these thought-fossils of the cathedrals, and in other revelations of the same idea through sculpture, painting, glass-staining, mosaic work, and engraving, during the Middle Ages and the two centuries following, culminated a belief which had been developed through thousands of years, and which has determined the world's thought until our own time.
A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom 1896
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These various stages in the evolution of scholastic theology were also embodied in sacred art, and especially in cathedral sculpture, in glass-staining, in mosaic working, and in missal painting.
A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom 1896
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The application of the word "romantic," in this passage, to the mediaeval art of glass-staining is significant.
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886
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The study of medieval arts like tempera painting, illuminating, glass-staining, wood-carving, tapestry embroidery; of the science of blazonry, of the details of ancient armor and costumes, was the pursuit of specialists.
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886
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Morris revived the mediaeval arts of glass-staining, illumination, or miniature painting, and tapestry-weaving with the high-warp loom.
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886
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This is in accordance with the effect of glass-staining, in which transparency may cease with darkness, but never with light.
On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859
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