(adj) elegant and fashionable; ; ; ; - Julia Child, Syn. swish, posh, Example:classy clothes; a classy dame; a posh restaurant; a swish pastry shop on the Rue du Bac
(adj) resembling glass in smoothness and shininess and slickness; ; - Willa Cather, Example:the glassy surface of the lake; the pavement was...glassy with water
(adj) (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it, Syn. vitrified, vitreous, Example:glazed pottery; glassy porcelain; hard vitreous china used for plumbing fixtures
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53 Collaborative International Dictionary (GCIDE)
a. 1. Made of glass; vitreous; as, a glassy substance. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a glassy surface; the glassy deep. [ 1913 Webster ]
3. Dull; wanting life or fire; lackluster; -- said of the eyes. “In his glassy eye.” Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]
Glassy feldspar (Min.), a variety of orthoclase; sanidine. [ 1913 Webster ]