>> 24. British for removable side windows
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> Side curtains, same as USA since the horse-and-buggy days. In the USA
> they were sometimes called "I-zen-glass" curtains (I have no idea how to
> spell that), which referred to the clear material. May have been a brand
> name for some kind of clear cello stuff no longer used. This term is very
> old and predated automobiles.
Although your dictionary may tell you otherwise, isinglass referred to a form
of sheet mica which was used in the US for window coverings in colonial times
when glass was expensive.
I only happen to know this because I have a friend who lives on Isinglass Road,
which has a quarry site from way back when, and I got curious about the name.
timd@ptltd.com (Tim Dziechowski - Phoenix Technologies - Cambridge, Mass)
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