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  • noun Plural form of glassworker.

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Examples

  • In line with these objectives, a 1271 law prohibited the importation of foreign glass or the employment of foreign glassworkers.

    Glasses Wars | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • We've used Flickr and blog software to publish a year-long research project about the glassworkers of Roman London for a whole new audience and for another 'behind the scenes' blog that is an experimental 'sneak peak into the working life of a museum'.

    Notes from 'Wine, Web 2.0 and What's New' Mia 2008

  • We've used Flickr and blog software to publish a year-long research project about the glassworkers of Roman London for a whole new audience and for another 'behind the scenes' blog that is an experimental 'sneak peak into the working life of a museum'.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Mia 2008

  • This website tells the story of the discovery, and how John Shepherd and I, with other colleagues, are working on this amazing collection of glass in order to learn more about the glassworkers of Roman London.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Mia 2007

  • Then, over the centuries, Islamic glassworkers introduced their own stylistic and technological innovations.

    The Treasures Of Islam 2007

  • Indian glassworkers, and the natives instantly detect modern productions, which are little valued.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • Often on chair tips and in the cup-shaped eraser that goes over the ends of some pencils you can see the "fin," as the glassworkers call it, where the two pieces of the mould did not exactly fit.

    Makers of Many Things Eva March Tappan 1892

  • This is because his art was descended from the glassworkers; and he himself continued to make designs for the glassworkers of Murano all his life.

    Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists Elbert Hubbard 1885

  • If the glassworkers had thought of themselves or of the public or even of the priests, they would have strained for effects, strong masses of colour, and striking subjects to impress the imagination.

    Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

  • So the composition of blue glass singularly preoccupied the glassworkers of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

    Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

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