Muscovy glass

noun

Muscovite, especially as used to make windows.

First used 16th c.
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nounMuscovy glass (uncountable)
  1. historicaluncountableMuscovite, especially as used to make windows.First known use 16th c.

    [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
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