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glazing

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1. glazing - Noun

2. glazing - Verb

Meaning

of Glase

The act or art of setting glass; the art of covering with a vitreous or glasslike substance, or of polishing or rendering glossy.

The glass set, or to be set, in a sash, frame. etc.

The glass, glasslike, or glossy substance with which any surface is incrusted or overlaid; as, the glazing of pottery or porcelain, or of paper.

Transparent, or semitransparent, colors passed thinly over other colors, to modify the effect.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The mountain reminds one of an upturned earthenware bowl, the glazing a little bluish at times, but sometimes like gold-rimmed transparent Chinese porcelain, especially if the sun is low in the west over the sea, because then the rays play on the glacier in two directions. Halldór Laxness

The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush. David Foster Wallace

A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fired his glazing eye: With dying hand, above his head, He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted "Victory!- Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on!" Walter Scott

We've become a nation of con men, living by selling double glazing to each other. Fred Dibnah

A downtown Augusta revival had been on a slow simmer for about a decade, ever since Tobias Parkhurst, then 30, retired from professional skateboarding and came home to take over his family’s Augusta glazing business. Source: Internet

Artists in later periods, such as the Impressionist era (late 19th century), often expanded on this wet-on-wet method, blending the wet paint on the canvas without following the Renaissance-era approach of layering and glazing. Source: Internet

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