frache ? Obs.
Also 9 fraiche.
A metal tray for holding glass-ware in the annealing process.
| 1662 Merrett tr. Neri's Art of Glass 244 After some time these Glasses are put into Iron Pans..call'd Fraches, which by degrees are drawn..all along the Leer..that the Glasses may cool Gradatim. 1799 G. Smith Laboratory I. 167 Fraches. 1832 G. R. Porter Porcelain & Gl. 158 The annealing oven..is..furnished with numerous shallow iron trays, which can be passed easily along the level bottom of the chamber. These trays are called lier-pans or fraiches. |