plate-glass

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See also: plate glass, and plateglass

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plate-glass (not comparable)

  1. Made from plate glass.
    • 1964 September, “Berwick is renovated”, in Modern Railways, page 207, photo caption:
      New plate-glass doors open on to a concourse that has been largely re-designed; ...
    • 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 50:
      Saratovkin's shop was on Staropochtovaya, a quiet back street well away from the heavy traffic. It had no plate-glass windows, it was rather small and rather dark, but all Pyatigorsk, Yessentuki, and Zheleznovodsk knew it.