Crown Glass

Crown glass is either of two kinds of glass:

  • Crown glass (window) was a type of hand-blown window glass.
  • Crown glass (optics) is a type of optical glass used in lenses.

Famous quotes containing the words crown and/or glass:

    ““Mother of heaven, regina of the clouds,
    O sceptre of the sun, crown of the moon,
    There is not nothing, no, no, never nothing,
    Like the clashed edges of two words that kill.””
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim’s watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across.”
    —Irvin S. Cobb (1876–1944)