Definition of Glazings

1. glazing [n] - See also: glazing

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glazings

glazed
glazen
glazer
glazers
glazes
glazier
glazieries
glaziers
glaziery
glaziest
glazily
glaziness
glazinesses
glazing
glazing agent
glazings (current term)
glazy
glead
gleads
gleam
gleamed
gleamer
gleamers
gleamier
gleamiest
gleaming
gleamingly
gleamings
gleams
gleamy

Literary usage of Glazings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, George Grove (1880)
"... designed — shews as little reverence for Art as would lie evinced by a desire to cover the Madonna <li San Sisto with ' additional glazings. ..."

2. Original Treatises: Dating from the XIIth to XVIIIth Centuries on the Arts by Mary Philadelphia Merrifield (1849)
"He says that glazings are never permanent, and that nothing can make them so; and as a proof, he told me there were in a certain palace several pictures by ..."

3. Treatise on the Knowledge Necessary to Amateurs in Pictures by François-Xavier de Burtin (1845)
"Finally, the different glazings and transparent colours, being in general the least solid from their nature and from their want of body, ought to be treated ..."

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