Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A maker of stained glass.
- noun A glass-painter.
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Examples
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As both a glass-painter and a glass-stainer, Peckitt used color in different ways to create designs. reference The glass base or substrate could be clear or colored; other, different-colored glasses could be fired onto it.
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Amid renewed thanks and with promises to come again, the two squires bade their leave of the old Italian glass-stainer and his daughter.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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Amid renewed thanks and with promises to come again, the two squires bade their leave of the old Italian glass-stainer and his daughter.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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Amid renewed thanks and with promises to come again, the two squires bade their leave of the old Italian glass-stainer and his daughter.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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IN one of the windows of the cathedral at Ulm a mediaeval glass-stainer has represented the Almighty as busily engaged in creating the animals, and there has just left the divine hands an elephant fully accoutred, with armour, harness, and housings, ready-for war.
A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom 1896
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In these representations the painter and the glass-stainer vied with the sculptor.
A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom 1896
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Amid renewed thanks and with promises to come again, the two squires bade their leave of the old Italian glass-stainer and his daughter.
The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Amid renewed thanks and with promises to come again, the two squires bade their leave of the old Italian glass-stainer and his daughter.
The White Company 1890
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Walpole was a prose paper entitled "T.e Ryse of Peyncteynge yn Englande, wroten by T. Rowleie, 1469, for Mastre Canynge," and containing _inter alia_, the following extraordinary "anecdote of painting" about Afflem, an Anglo-Saxon glass-stainer of Edmond's reign who was taken prisoner by the Danes.
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886
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The nymph in furred raiment who seduces Hylas is conceived frankly in the spirit of Teutonic romance; her song is of a garden [226] enclosed, such as that with which the old church glass-stainer surrounds the mystic bride of the song of songs.
Aesthetic Poetry Walter Pater 1866
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