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a. enclose, surrounded, or contained by glass panels, usually for protection.
Usage examples of "glassed-in".
But on the drawing boards was a series of freighter-sized floating kampongs, massive sail-powered trimarans for the deep ocean, with glassed-in greenhouse decks.
This one was done in lilacs and blues, with large wicker chairs whose cushions matched the draperies and quilt, a king-size four-poster with the trademark stuffed frogs squatting near the pillow, and an oversized, glassed-in Jacuzzi standing in clear sight.
A great turrent squatted on each flattened hull, ridiculously small for the apparent weight it bore, and angular glassed-in driving cabins projected awkwardly like after-thoughts from forward port and aft starboard corners.
Hyde steered the car reluctantly towards the lay-by and its small, glassed-in bus shelter.
He led her past the astonished deck watch, past sleeping families camped on the main deck, to his great cabin on the quarter-deck with its sweeping glassed-in stern galley, glittering oil lamps, and big canopied bed.
They passed a house with a lighted, glassed-in porch on which drum sets were displayed, smaller drums stacked on top of larger, some gold-spangled like a woman's Iam evening gown and all of them glittering with chrome, and she wondered if she were dreaming again.
But I did come across one very peculiar item, a small green metal box six inches by four by two, with a circular control that was both switch and tuner, and two glassed-in dials with neither figures nor marking on them.
Inside was the large, dim, echoing Ulterior of the hangar with small, pearly glowings hi the gloom that were the future aircraft To our right was a glassed-in office brightly lit with self-powered battle fluorescents, standing in for the built-in fluorescent lights in the ceiling, now dark for lack of power from the community's central supply.
Even before he reached the crest of the island, he could make out the glassed-in observation tower, a narrow deck running around its outer edge.
The Castle Club was not so much a club as a glassed-in eating area with red fake-leather banquettes, Formica tables made to look like wood, and beveled mirrors shot through with faux gold marbling.
His glassed-in sun porch, which gave onto the lake, was filled with potted banana, umbrella, orange, and Hong Kong orchid trees, and in the center of the house was a heavily chlorinated, lime-green swimming pool with steam rising off the water.
There was something sad about it, Daphne thought as she and her sister pulled up in front: it wasnt so much a sense of neglect but rather one of failure radiating from every patched-over crack and cheap home improvement- like the faux brick siding and tiny glassed-in sun porch off the kitchen.
By looking carefully he could spot the signs of a number of homes within half a mile or so the corner of a roof, a glassed-in porch built to command a river view, a twenty-foot television antenna poking through the trees.