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单词 stained glass
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stained glass
4. stained glass: transparent coloured glass, formed into decorative mosaics, used in windows (esp. of churches). Also, less correctly, glass which has been decorated with vitrified pigments. So also stained window.
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1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. ii. 37 Whose pointed arches still exhibited fragments of stained glass.
1834 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Seine 159 The stained windows are very beautiful.
1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs Painting 136 Stained glass must not be confounded with painted glass. In stained glass the colouring is not superficial, but pervades the substance of the glass.
1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 142 The making of stained windows.
figurative.1909 J. Wells Stewart of Lovedale iii. 18 Though a zealous idealist, he did not look at present things through the stained glass of the imagination.attributive.1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 155/2 The present want of encouragement to the stained glass artist.1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1159 Stained-glass pigments.1849 D. Rock Church of our Fathers (1903) I. i. v. 280 Our stained-glass windows.1881 W. S. Gilbert Patience ii. 12 I am not fond of uttering platitudes In stained-glass attitudes.
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