The word 'glassy' is correct and usable in written English.
It is commonly used to describe something that is smooth, clear, and shiny, like glass. Example: The lake looked incredibly glassy in the early morning light, reflecting the surrounding trees and mountains perfectly.
The projecting glassy liner, which drives a wedge between the Southbank and the National Theatre, is echoed 40 metres up in the air, by what the architects describe as a floating pavilion – a 60-metre-long glass box that will loom over the Hayward gallery.
On a clear, moonlight night 150 years ago, the hand-cranked Confederate submarine HL Hunley glided out over glassy seas off South Carolina, sailing into history as the first submarine ever to sink an enemy warship.
Bobbing on the surface of the glassy ocean I'm still fresh with the thrill of catching my previous wave.
The glassy orb, an image of the world or the cosmos, makes you think of Leonardo's scientific research and his philosophy of the microcosm of the human being within the macrocosm of the universe.
"Billionaires' Row" is rising over midtown Manhattan, a collection of glassy new pinnacles that promise the kind of condo views you can get in New York only by building taller than everything else around.
Tables and benches are set in the sand on a bluff above either glassy lagoons or frothy Atlantic rollers, depending on the tide.
The North Island is Te Ika A Maui, "the fish of Maui" (recounting the mythic tale of New Zealand's creation) where the South is Te Wai Pounamu, "the waters of greenstone" (describing the glassy stone, prized by Maori, that is found in the swift rivers and along the savage misted beaches of the lonely south).
But it shouldn't be: East India Youth's debut is the rain-soaked flyover between modern ambient and visceral techno, banging producer and mournful songwriter, frustration and elation, with driving kraut-pop songs that burst into glassy, brightly-lit instrumentals.
Distant twinkling lights reflect in the river's glassy surface.
In the age of empire its glassy surface dispatched fleets and trade.
Then they dry them in such a way that they form tiny glassy beads.
