Translucent glass...

 ...or frosted glass, or etched glass, or opaque glass, or privacy glass, or sand blasted glass. I've heard all those names applied to the glass in windows that is designed to let in light but prevent someone outside seeing in. Translucent glass seems to me to be the best name because it best describes the ability to admit light but but prevent anyone looking through it seeing details. The example above is in a toilet/wash-room. Outside, when I took my photograph there was evening light falling on a street with, from the top, blue sky, bricks sunlit and in shade, a blue vehicle, yellow heather, green grass and grey tarmac.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Nikon Z 5

View from the coffee shop window

This photograph gets its pixellated effect from translucent plastic that has been fixed to the window to mimic frosted glass. At the bottom it lets very little of the outside world through and the decreasing size of the "pixels" as you go up the window allows you to see more and more. We often sit at this window in one of the local coffee shops and I take the occasional photograph through it, fascinated by the effects it produces.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Lumix FZ1000 2

Ornate pub window

Britain's Victorian and Edwardian public houses (pubs) sometimes seem to have been decorated on the premiss that more is better. Ornate designs covered most surfaces, particularly walls and any area that was tiled. The latter often included the whole of the exterior. Windows were rarely left untouched. Typically they told whether the room behind the glass was the public bar or the saloon bar, and frequently designs celebrated the pub's individual name. This example, that I passed in London, is a mass of cartouches, foliage, flowers and fruit, with at its centre what looks to be a thrush or blackbird.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Sony DSC-RX100