glazier
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See also: Glazier
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English glazier, glasier, glasyer, glasiere, variants (due to influence from words in -yer) of Middle English glaser, equivalent to glass + -er.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡleɪzjə(ɹ)/, /ˈɡleɪʒə(ɹ)/, /ˈɡleɪzi.ə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England); /ˈɡleɪzjə/: (file) Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (Southern England); /ˈɡleɪzi.ə/: (file)
- (US) enPR: glā'zhər, IPA(key): /ˈɡleɪʒəɹ/, /ˈɡleɪzi.əɹ/
Noun
[edit]glazier (plural glaziers)
- One who glazes; a craftsman who works with glass, fitting windows, etc.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 2, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 10:
- "In judging of that tempestuous wind called Euroclydon,” says an old writer—of whose works I possess the only copy extant—“it maketh a marvellous difference, whether thou lookest out at it from a glass window where the frost is all on the outside, or whether thou observest it from that sashless window, where the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death is the only glazier."
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[edit]Translations
[edit]craftsman who works with glass, fitting windows, etc
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Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡleɪzi.ə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) enPR: glā'zē-ər, IPA(key): /ˈɡleɪzi.əɹ/
Adjective
[edit]glazier
- comparative form of glazy: more glazy
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]glazier
- Alternative form of glasier
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