Meanings
adjectiveplate-glass (not comparable)
- not comparableMade from plate glass.
New plate-glass doors open on to a concourse that has been largely re-designed; ...
1964 September, “Berwick is renovated”, in Modern Railways, page 207, photo caption1 more example
Saratovkin's shop was on Staropochtovaya, a quiet back street well away from the heavy traffic. It had no plate-glass windows, it was rather small and rather dark, but all Pyatigorsk, Yessentuki, and Zheleznovodsk knew it.
1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 50
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