Home › Words › G › glasseryglasseryglassery means A business that works with glass or glassware; glassworks.EtymologyFrom glass + -ery.nounA business that works with glass or glassware; glassworks.e.g.“We went right through the lifeless, silent streets to a wrecked glassery away beyond the canal.” — 1918, Reginald John Farrer, The Void of War: Letters from Three Fronts, page 199:A building or group of buildings made largely of glass windows.e.g.“The Hotel Marlborough stands ugly and unloved in a mean, sleazy street in midtown Manhattan between the tasteless black glassery of Sixth Avenue and the honest vulgarity of Broadway.” — 1975, Denis Pitts, This City is Ours: A Novel, page 36:A room with many windows; sunroom.e.g.“Beyond the living-room is a glassery, low-studded and heavily beamed.” — 1922, The Scroll of Phi Delta Theta - Volume 46, Issue 4, page 377:A place for storing or displaying glassware.e.g.“Mr. Sturt is much pleased with the glass case article (see p. 318), and permits me to say that his glasseries are open to inspection.” — 1863, The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, page 390:Glassware.Skill in working with glass.e.g.“No degree was ever conferred on a student unless he could demonstrate sufficient aptitude in "glassery" or as a "glass man."” — 1924, The Czechoslovak Review - Volume 8, page 233:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).