stained glass

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   glass that has been colored in some way; used for church windows

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Questions about stained glass

What does stained glass mean?

stained glass means "glass that has been colored in some way; used for church windows".

Is stained glass a common word?

stained glass is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.