Sentence examples for lead crystal from inspiring English sources
noun
Glass that contains at least 24% of lead oxide (PbO).
Hand‐cut lead crystal with silverplated rim.
* Do not use lead crystal every day.
There are faux wood panelling, walnut desks, lead crystal decanters and sepia portraits of Victorian ladies.
This fault was overcome by adding lead oxide to produce lead crystal.
Lead crystal, as it was known, thereafter became a favourite type of glass for fine tableware.
Aesthetes still enjoyed lead crystal, as long as they remembered not to keep wine in it.
Ten thousand lead-crystal pendants dance beneath a cloud of scrunched-up chicken wire.
Above the table, a lead-crystal chandelier hung like a tree in winter, most of its pendants missing.
"Mozart spent a lot of time in Vienna and composed works for the lead-crystal glass harmonica," Ms. Philipsz said.
Serve a gin and tonic in a heavy bottomed lead-crystal tumbler and it will be thought a better drink than the same served in a plastic cup.
Another well-known local business is Flemington Cut Glass, a lead-crystal manufacturer that opened in 1902 and still has a shop off Main Street.
