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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Glass colored by mixing pigments inherently in the glass, by fusing colored metallic oxides onto the glass, or by painting and baking transparent colors on the glass surface.
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- noun Glass that has been
coloured , either bypainting or byfusing pigments into its structure. - noun architecture The use of such glass to construct
decorative windows , especially inchurches .
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- noun glass that has been colored in some way; used for church windows
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qroqqa commented on the word stained glass
The first recorded use of the term is from Mrs Radcliffe's Romance of the Forest (1791):
Above the vast and magnificent portal of this gate arose a window of the same order, whose pointed arches still exhibited fragments of stained glass, once the pride of monkish devotion.
This clearly can't be the first occurrence; but anyway, what did they call it for centuries before that?
October 7, 2010