"windowglass" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Dorothea”, in The Confessions of Fitz-Boodle; and Some Passages in the Life of Major Gahagan, New York: Appleton, page 138",
          "text": "At first he contented himself by flattening his nose against the window-glasses of his study, and looking what the Englander was about.",
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          "ref": "1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, “North-west Passage: Good Night”, in A Child’s Garden of Verses, London: Longmans, Green & Co, page 50",
          "text": "Now we behold the embers flee\nAbout the firelit hearth; and see\nOur faces painted as we pass,\nLike pictures, on the window-glass.",
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          "ref": "1929, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 18, in The Dain Curse",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1936, William Faulkner, chapter 2, in Absalom, Absalom!, New York: Vintage, published 1990, page 28",
          "text": "[…] the house was completed save for the windowglass and the ironware which they could not make by hand […]",
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          "ref": "2015, John Irving, chapter 21, in Avenue of Mysteries, New York: Simon & Schuster, published 2016, page 291",
          "text": "She stared out the window of the bus, or she slept with her forehead pressed against the window glass […]",
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  "word": "windowglass"
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      "word": "window-glass"
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      "word": "window glass"
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