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Muscovy glass

Muscovy glass noun: muscovite, especially as used to make windows.

Noun

Muscovy glass (uncountable)

  1. (historical) Muscovite, especially as used to make windows.
    • [It] may be perhaps very much concerned in the business of its hardening and tempering: of which somewhat is said in the Description of Muscovy-glass.1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia

Questions about Muscovy glass

What does Muscovy glass mean?
Muscovy glass means muscovite, especially as used to make windows.
What part of speech is Muscovy glass?
Muscovy glass is a noun.

Words near Muscovy glass in the dictionary

  1. muscovitizations
  2. muscovitized
  3. muscovy
  4. Muscovy duck
  5. Muscovy ducks
  6. Muscovy glass
  7. Muscoy
  8. musculamine
  9. muscular
  10. muscular Christian
  11. muscular Christianity

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