crackle glass

English

Alternative forms

  • crackle-glass

Noun

crackle glass (countable and uncountable, plural crackle glasses)

  1. A type of glass with fine cracks, developed in Venice in the 16th century by immersing the hot glass in cold water.
    Synonyms: ice glass, crackled glass
    • 1907, Edward Dillon, Glass, London: Methuen and Co., page 17:
      When this change has been fully developed we get a true crackle-glass, not to be confounded with the frosted glass of Venice mentioned in Chapter XIII.
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