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Molten sand, convinced to hold its shape and your wine.
means Objects made of glass, especially decorative or finely crafted ones, and the craft of making them.
from A straightforward compound: 'glass,' from Old English glæs (related to 'glare' and 'glass' roots tied to shininess), plus 'work,' Old English weorc. No trickery here — it names itself the way 'metalwork' and 'woodwork' do, the material simply announcing the labor done upon it.
- origin
- glass is just sand that got really hot
- fun fact
- technically a liquid that forgot to keep flowing
- fragility
- survives 1000 degrees, dies from one dropped fork
- venice secret
- murano glassblowers were once forbidden to leave the island