windowglassとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

window +‎ glass

名詞

windowglass (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 windowglasses)

1. A windowpane; the glass comprising a windowpane; the windowpanes in a building (collectively).
   • 1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Confessions of Fitz-Boodle; and Some Passages in the Life of Major Gahagan, New York: Appleton, “Dorothea,” p. 138,^[1]

     At first he contented himself by flattening his nose against the window-glasses of his study, and looking what the Englander was about.

   • 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, “North-west Passage: Good Night” in A Child’s Garden of Verses, London: Longmans, Green & Co., p. 50,^[2]

     Now we behold the embers flee

     About the firelit hearth; and see

     Our faces painted as we pass,

     Like pictures, on the window-glass.

   • 1929, Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse, Chapter 18,^[3]

     “There was no noise as of something being thrown through the glass just before the explosion: and there’s no broken window-glass inside the room. The screen was over it, too, so we can say the pineapple wasn’t chucked in through the window.”

   • 1936, William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! New York: Vintage, 1990, Chapter 2, p. 28,^[4]

     […] the house was completed save for the windowglass and the ironware which they could not make by hand […]

   • 2015, John Irving, Avenue of Mysteries, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016, Chapter 21, p. 291,^[5]

     She stared out the window of the bus, or she slept with her forehead pressed against the window glass […]