glassine

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noun

A light paper used as interleaving between artworks or stamp album pages.

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Meanings

nounglassine (countable and uncountable, plural glassines)

plural glassines

  1. countableuncountableA light paper used as interleaving between artworks or stamp album pages.

    Each illustration was protected by a glassine page that had to be turned delicately.

    2024, Scott Alexander Howard, The Other Valley, Atlantic Books (2025), page 7
  2. countableuncountableSmooth, non-absorbing, grease- and moisture-resistant, supercalendered paper.
  3. countableuncountableusuallyhobbiesA small stamp packet made from glassine paper.

Origin

From glass + -ine.

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Translations

Bulgarian оризова хартия
  • оризова хартия (orizova hartija)smooth, non-absorbing, grease- and moisture-resistant, super-calendered paper
Catalan paper cristall
  • paper cristallsmooth, non-absorbing, grease- and moisture-resistant, super-calendered paper

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APA

glassine. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glassine

MLA

“glassine.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glassine. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “glassine,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glassine.

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