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Glass

is from the Celtic glas (bluishgreen), the colour produced by the woad employed by the ancient Britons in dyeing their bodies. Pliny calls it glastrum, and Cæsar vitrum.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Give the Boys a Holiday
Give the Devil his Due
Gizzard
Gjallar
Glacis
Gladsheim [Home of joy]
Gladstone Bag (A)
Glamorgan
Glasgow Arms
Glasgow Magistrate (A)
Glass
Glass Breaker (A)
Glass-eye
Glass Houses
Glass Slipper (of Cinderella)
Glasse (Mrs. Hannah)
Glassite (A)
Glastonbury
Glaswegian
Glauber Salts
Glaucus (of Bœotia)