Definition of "glassmakers" [glassmakers]

• Plural form of glassmaker. (noun)

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• "Othoniel has explained that he purposely avoids the perfection and regularity that expert glassblowers typically seek: whereas glassblowers routinely reject examples of their work that bear traces of their creation, he chose to work with such accidents, asking the glassmakers to wound the glass before working on it, leading to irregular, marked forms, bearing scars."
• "In Bordeaux, it was Dutch engineers who drained the marshy lowlands of the M é doc, making them suitable for wine growing, while Champagne growers can look to England, where glassmakers first pioneered the stronger bottle that enabled the sparkling wine to be bottled and exported to the taverns of London, providing them with a lucrative market."
• "A subsequent law passed in 1295 forbidding the glassmakers from leaving the city confirms this theory."