Stained glass is coloured glass set in lead to make a window picture. A stained glass window.
The colour is in the glass itself, added as metal oxides while it is molten. Stained glass was a way of telling stories to people who could not read.
1nounstained glassColoured glass set in lead to make a window picture.
“The stained glass threw colours across the floor at four o'clock.”
stained glass is glass.
Practised in Buildings & Architecture, Colours & Patterns