Meanings
nounground-glass (uncountable)
- alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of ground glass.
It was the hand of a master that Laura seemed to see in her face, the witty expression of which shone like a lamp through the ground-glass of her good breeding; nature was always an artist, but not so much of an artist as that.
1888, Henry James, A London Life
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