: one who sets glass
Examples of glazier in a Sentence
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In Bastiat’s parable, a boy breaks a window and the onlookers conclude that the boy has performed a public service, because his father will have to pay the town’s glazier to replace the broken window, who will in turn spend that money on other things.
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WSJ, 31 Aug. 2020
Pomales earned his certification as a glazier apprentice through the Connecticut State Building Trades Institute.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 12 Dec. 2022
My father, who worked for decades as a glazier installing glass storefronts, developed a stoicism as a tool of the trade.
—Josh Gondelman, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2022
His father was a glazier, and his mother, Lois (Bowan) Roat, was a homemaker.
—Richard Sandomir, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2022
Her father, Abraham, worked with a cousin, a glazier, in his auto glass shop in the Bronx.
—Sam Roberts, New York Times, 7 June 2022
His father was a glazier — a tradesman who works with glass — and his mother was a cleaner, according to the London Daily Telegraph.
—Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2021
His father was a glazier, his mother a housekeeper.
—Sam Roberts, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2021
The young artist grew up working for his family’s business as a house painter and glazier.
—Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2021
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WSJ, 31 Aug. 2020
Pomales earned his certification as a glazier apprentice through the Connecticut State Building Trades Institute.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 12 Dec. 2022
My father, who worked for decades as a glazier installing glass storefronts, developed a stoicism as a tool of the trade.
—Josh Gondelman, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2022
His father was a glazier, and his mother, Lois (Bowan) Roat, was a homemaker.
—Richard Sandomir, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2022
Her father, Abraham, worked with a cousin, a glazier, in his auto glass shop in the Bronx.
—Sam Roberts, New York Times, 7 June 2022
His father was a glazier — a tradesman who works with glass — and his mother was a cleaner, according to the London Daily Telegraph.
—Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2021
His father was a glazier, his mother a housekeeper.
—Sam Roberts, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2021
The young artist grew up working for his family’s business as a house painter and glazier.
—Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2021
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First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of glazier was
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“Glazier.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glazier. Accessed 2 Dec. 2023.
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glazier
noun
gla·zier
ˈglā-zhər 
-zē-ər
: a person who sets glass in window frames
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