STAINED-GLASS WINDOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stained-glass window mean? 

• STAINED-GLASS WINDOW (noun)
  The noun STAINED-GLASS WINDOW has 1 sense:

1. a window made of stained glass

  Familiarity information: STAINED-GLASS WINDOW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STAINED-GLASS WINDOW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A window made of stained glass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("stained-glass window" is a kind of...):

window (a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air)

 Context examples 

A fair hand was stretched forth to me from the window; and the face I had never seen without a feeling of serenity and happiness, from the moment when it first turned back on the old oak staircase with the great broad balustrade, and when I associated its softened beauty with the stained-glass window in the church, was smiling on me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And now, indeed, I began to think that in my old association of her with the stained-glass window in the church, a prophetic foreshadowing of what she would be to me, in the calamity that was to happen in the fullness of time, had found a way into my mind.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)