stained glass
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4.4
- noun
- /steɪnd ɡlæs/
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vidriera
- The cathedral's beautiful stained glass windows depict scenes from religious stories.
- stained glass window
If you're my friend, prepare yourself for getting stained glass presents every birthday and Christmas.
- If you're my friend, prepare yourself for getting stained glass presents every birthday and Christmas.
- They're about appeasement, about their coffer, about putting new stained glass windows up.
- And then it turns out that Kate Savaker, who just did a bunch of wonderful work with us on, on Bethesda, is a stained glass expert.
- My sister and I, young and younger, shrieked until our mom lit the fat candle, it's plastic container painted to look like stained glass.
- Yeah, and see some stained glass windows and hopefully some beautiful pictures.
- It's almost like it reminds you of, like, stained glass or something for some reason.
- The words you use really are like a context or a framework or a stained glass window on the way you see the world.
- So they also look like stained glass windows, like Shields, veils, bolts of patterned fabric, Sentinels, guardians, Saints, even surfboards.
Examples
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Is a stained glass window more expensive than a regular window?
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Sunlight suddenly cascaded through the stained glass again, spreading its blanket of warmth over them both.
Fiction book (1992) -
You found the stained glass window?
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Well, I am building a stained-glass window for the church up the road.
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I love the stained glass.
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The door is heavy, dark wood with a circular stained-glass eye set into it.
Fiction book (1994) -
From the park, he could see the stained-glass windows of St. Candace.
Fiction book (1994) -
There's a gorgeous stained glass here in the corner.
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You know, it is this spirit of giving which enabled us to acquire this magnificent stained glass window imported directly from Italy.
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Renowned for its stained glass windows, you can see the intricate craftsmanship...
Antonyms
How Colorful
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'glass that has been colored' is directly and literally derived from combining 'stained' (colored or treated with stain) with 'glass' (the transparent material). This simple adjective+noun composition is compositional and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Stained glass comes from the old craft of making bright windows by coloring pieces of glass. Artists would stain the glass, that is 'color' it with paint to make pictures or patterns, and when sunlight shines through the colored pieces it makes bright, colored light inside. That's why stained glass means 'glass that has been colored and used for decorative windows'.