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Glass that promises clarity and delivers mostly your own reflection at night.
means A single pane of glass set into a window frame, dividing the sash into its gridded sections.
from A straightforward compound: 'window' (from Old Norse 'vindauga,' literally 'wind-eye' — the hole early homes left open for light and air, long before glass arrived) plus 'pane,' from Old French 'pan,' meaning a piece or section of cloth or surface. So a windowpane is literally a 'section of the wind-eye' — the small fitted piece that finally let people glaze over that old open hole and keep the wind out while the light stayed in.
- LSD slang
- also means a thin gelatin acid tablet
- flaws, visible
- old panes sag thicker at the bottom over decades
- grid origin
- muntins existed because big glass sheets were once impossible
- plaid cousin
- windowpane check fabric mimics the grid, not the view