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

  • A large, conspicuous glass-faced tube poked through the padding in one corner of the room.

    I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010

  • 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

  • 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.

    TALK RADIO: Upstart Productions Got 'Tude 2009

  • 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

  • A solar panel usually consists of a glass-faced, sealed, insulated box with a black matte interior finish.

    AP Environmental Science Chapter 14- Renewable 2008

  • 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

  • All sorts of hearts; yea, from the glass-faced flatterer

    The Life of Timon of Athens 2004

  • He leaned over the glass-faced sarcophagus of his predecessor and former lover.

    An Ill Fate Marshalling Cook, Glen 1988

  • 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

  • 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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