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:

    “It grazes the horizons, launched above

    Mortality—ascending emerald-bright,
    A fountain at salute, a crown in view—”
    —Hart Crane (1899–1932)

    “The glass of fashion and the mould of form,
    Th’observed of all observers.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)