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crackle glass

crackle glass noun: a type of glass with fine cracks, developed in Venice in the 16th century by immersing the hot glass in cold water.

crackle glass: a type of glass with fine cracks, developed in Venice in the 16th century by immersing the hot...
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Noun

crackle glass (countable and uncountable, plural crackle glasses)

  1. A type of glass with fine cracks, developed in Venice in the 16th century by immersing the hot glass in cold water.
    • When this change has been fully developed we get a true crackle-glass, not to be confounded with the frosted glass of Venice mentioned in Chapter XIII.1907, Edward Dillon, Glass, London: Methuen and Co., page 17
    Synonyms:
    ice glass, crackled glass

Synonyms of crackle glass

  • ice glass
  • crackled glass

Forms of crackle glass

pluralcrackle glasses
alternative formcrackle-glass

Questions about crackle glass

What does crackle glass mean?
Crackle glass means a type of glass with fine cracks, developed in Venice in the 16th century by immersing the hot glass in cold water.
What part of speech is crackle glass?
Crackle glass is a noun.
What is the plural of crackle glass?
The plural of crackle glass is crackle glasses.

Words near crackle glass in the dictionary

  1. cracking up
  2. cracking wise
  3. crackings
  4. crackjaw
  5. crackle
  6. crackle glass
  7. crackleberries
  8. crackleberry
  9. crackled
  10. crackler
  11. cracklers

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