glassery

English

Etymology

glass +‎ -ery

Noun

glassery (countable and uncountable, plural glasseries)

1. (countable) A business that works with glass or glassware; glassworks.
   • 1918, Reginald John Farrer, The Void of War: Letters from Three Fronts, page 199:

     We went right through the lifeless, silent streets to a wrecked glassery away beyond the canal.

   • 1929, The Glass Container - Volume 8, Issue 10, page 5:

     In San Francisco a large glassery is now operated to put up Kraft-Phoenix Cheese and Wright's Mayonnaise and Salad Dressing.

   • 2013, Norman Rush, Mating:

     I know I stayed fixedly wherever I was and tried to replay what Nelson had said, to be certain he wasn't saying something as innocent and local as that we could stay an extra couple of hours at the glassery if I sent to the kitchen for some soup and scones, rather than going back for supper to the octagon.

   • 2018 October 8, Andrew Kirov, “Knowing Your Neighbors: Shannon’s Stained Glassery”, in Fox 21 Local News:

     She’s owned her own glassery in South Superior for six years where she sells necklaces, picture frames, sun catchers, wedding invitations, and much more.

2. (countable, uncountable) A building or group of buildings made largely of glass windows.
   • 1975, Denis Pitts, This City is Ours: A Novel, page 36:

     The Hotel Marlborough stands ugly and unloved in a mean, sleazy street in midtown Manhattan between the tasteless black glassery of Sixth Avenue and the honest vulgarity of Broadway.

   • 2010, Norval White, Elliot Willensky, Fran Leadon, AIA Guide to New York City:

     A 38-story luxury pioneer at the west edge of Clinton. A notch above most of the fervored glasseries of 21st-century Manhattan.

3. (countable) A room with many windows; sunroom.
   • 1922, The Scroll of Phi Delta Theta - Volume 46, Issue 4, page 377:

     Beyond the living-room is a glassery, low-studded and heavily beamed.

   • 1922, Architectural Record - Volume 52, page 92:

     Beyond the living room is a “glassery” or sun-parlor with heavily beamed ceiling and a rugged stone fireplace.

   • 1961, William Sansom, Blue Skies, Brown Studies, page 206:

     Cantilevers dripping with flowering creeper, egg-domes mellowed with ochre lichens, glasseries shadowed by time and weather to brood the conspiracy of old conservatories.

4. (countable) A place for storing or displaying glassware.
   • 1863, The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, page 390:

     Mr. Sturt is much pleased with the glass case article (see p. 318), and permits me to say that his glasseries are open to inspection.

   • 1976, Arnold Wesker -, The Plays of Arnold Wesker, page 3:

     But throughout the morning there are about three or four who wander in and out carrying glasses from the glassery to the dining-room and performing duties which are mentioned in the course of the play.

5. (uncountable) Glassware.
   • 1880, American Journal of Dental Science, page 408:

     The treasures of the loom, the spotless laundering, the marvels of glassery, the products of the most skillful gold and silversmiths, the finest table cutlery, the treasures of porcelain, the sparkling liquors, are spread artistically on heavy tables, rich with massiveness and exxquisite carving.

   • 1910, Health [a Monthly Devoted to the Cause and Cure of Disease]:

     In the gracing of the tables of banquets, among the glassery, the cutlery, the gold and silver plate, the art of the confectioner, and the general architectural production of the cuisine, celery is never out of place.

   • 2012, Luigi Campanella, 22nd International Conference on Chemistry Education/11th European Conference on Research in Chemical Education:

     A collection of old reagents, dyes and glassery is also exposed.

6. (uncountable) Skill in working with glass.
   • 1924, The Czechoslovak Review - Volume 8, page 233:

     No degree was ever conferred on a student unless he could demonstrate sufficient aptitude in "glassery" or as a "glass man."

Anagrams

• Grassley