Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a face of glass, or like a glass or mirror.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Mirror-faced; reflecting the sentiments of another.
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Examples
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A large, conspicuous glass-faced tube poked through the padding in one corner of the room.
I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010
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I often start my day at the Central Bus Station, a monstrous glass-faced building, and head either for the Peace Corps office or the center.
A Day in Sofia Greg 2009
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Across the back of the space spans weird little glass-faced cubicles where sound techies and programming staff work their voodoo so the "talent", the DJ's du jour, can focus on spinning LP's and amusing themselves aloud to anonymous nobodies.
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I often start my day at the Central Bus Station, a monstrous glass-faced building, and head either for the Peace Corps office or the center.
Archive 2009-05-01 Greg 2009
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A solar panel usually consists of a glass-faced, sealed, insulated box with a black matte interior finish.
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The front of the building was similarly spartan in its design: a pair of windows allowed a view of the street from within, and a pair of glass-faced double doors led the way in.
Thunder and Ashes Z.A. Recht 2008
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All sorts of hearts; yea, from the glass-faced flatterer
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He leaned over the glass-faced sarcophagus of his predecessor and former lover.
An Ill Fate Marshalling Cook, Glen 1988
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He saw their reflections everywhere-on the walls, on the glass-faced bar and the long mirror behind it; he could even see them reflected as curved miniatures in the graceful bell-shapes of wine glasses hung upside down above the bar ... glasses as gorgeous and fragile as festival ornaments.
The Drawing of the Three King, Stephen, 1947- 1987
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You would awaken beneath the surface of the sea, to find a glass-faced human hovering above you and mumbling concerns.
Cachalot Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1980
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