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Glassblowers and Glassmiths Glassblowing is a glass forming technique that involves inflating molten glass into a bubble (or parison), with the aid of a blowpipe (or blow tube). A person who blows glass is called a glassblower , glassmith , or gaffer . >=====Image - From Charles Knight's Pictorial Gallery of Arts, England, 1858. Glassworking industry in England in 1858 . Public Domain - New Yor...
English and German: metonymic occupational name for a glazier or glass blower from Old English glæs ‘glass’ Middle High German glas. In English the name may also derive from a nickname from Old French glas clas ‘clash of arms noise tumult (of battle)’. Irish (Ulster) Welsh Cornish and Scottish: from an Anglicized form of the epithet glas ‘slate colored gray’ or any of various Gaelic surnames de...
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