chrystal
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See also: Chrystal
English[edit]
Noun[edit]
chrystal (countable and uncountable, plural chrystals)
Adjective[edit]
chrystal (not comparable)
- Obsolete spelling of crystal
- c. 1635–39?, Richard Brome, The Queen and Concubine. A Comedie, London: […] A. Crook, and Hen. Brome, […], published 1659, act IV, scene III, page 81:
- Conſider there how black and fowl your Sin / Is rendred by my Chryſtal innocence: […]
- 1798 October 24, Jane Austen, “Letter VIII”, in Edward, Lord Brabourne, editor, Letters of Jane Austen, volume I, London: Richard Bentley & Son, […], published 1884, →OCLC, pages 155–156:
- We had one heavy shower on leaving Sittingbourne, but afterwards the clouds cleared away, and we had a very bright chrystal afternoon.