“Shallow silver tasting cups are used in dark cellars, where it is hard for light to penetrate the depth of wine in a glass.”
“Lesser items, such as old magazines, inexpensive glass and chinaware may just sit in boxes.”
“Once I started reading your book, with the aid of my reading glass, I was so fascinated with it that I couldn't stop.”
glasshouse
A building made of glass in which plants are grown more rapidly than outside such a building by the action of heat from the sun, this heat being trapped inside by the glass (chiefly commercial).
“This was granted, and Henry's son Edward VI followed up with a grant of letters patent to Henry Smyth, who hoped to introduce foreign glassworking techniques into England.”