plate glass

See also: plate-glass and plateglass

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Noun

plate glass (usually uncountable, plural plate glasses)

  1. Sheet glass; a type of glass, initially produced in plane form, commonly used for windows, windshields, etc.
    • 1955 June, “Two-Car Electric Units for Tyneside and Southern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 388:
      Two large windows are provided in the front of the cab with a roller type of route indicator between them; both windows and indicator are fitted with ¼-in.-thick toughened plate glass.
    • 1986 December 7, Margaret Hunt, “Discord in the Happy Valley: Report of a Conference on Feminism, Sexuality and Power”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 21, page 8:
      About ten years ago, I even helped heave a concrete block through the plate glass window of a store

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