GR translation: Crowned window frames

[David Morris]

You are close, but this is the specific type:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_glass_(window)

*Crown glass* was an early type of window glass. In this process, glass was
blown <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glassblowing> into a "crown" or hollow
globe. This was then transferred from the
blowpipe<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowpipe_(tool)> to
a punty <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punty> and then flattened by
reheating and spinning out the bowl-shaped piece of glass (bullion) into a
flat disk by centrifugal force<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifugal_force>,
up to 5 or 6 feet (1.5 to 1.8 metres) in diameter. The glass was then cut
to the size required.

On Monday, July 15, 2013, Mike Jing wrote:

> V384.41-385.14 (P391.8-22)   They were sporting the Caligari gloves which
> now enjoy a summer vogue in the Zone: bone white, except for the four lines
> in deep violet fanning up each gloveback from wrist to knuckles. All wore
> suits nearly as light-colored as the teeth. It seemed extravagant to
> Squalidozzi, after Buenos Aires and Zürich. The women crossed their legs
> often: they were tense as vipers. In the air was a grassy smell, a smell of
> leaves burning, that was strange to the Argentine who, terminally homesick,
> had only the smell of freshly brewed maté after a bitter day at the
> racetrack to connect it with. Crowned window frames gave out on the brick
> factory courtyard where summer air moved softly. The filmlight flickered
> blue across empty windows as if it were breath trying to produce a note.
> The images grew blunt with vengeance. “Yay!” screamed all the zootsters,
> white gloves bouncing up and down. Their mouths and eyes were as wide as
> children’s.
>
> Are these "crowned window frames" same as those in leadlights?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadlight
>
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