Muscovy glass

English

Noun

Muscovy glass (uncountable)

  1. (now historical) Muscovite, especially as used to make windows. [from 16th c.]
    • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:
      [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.
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