? Obs. Also 9 fraiche. A metal tray for holding glass-ware in the annealing process.

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1662.  Merrett, trans. Neri’s Art of Glass, 244 After some time these Glasses are put into Iron Pans, Agricola makes them of clay call’d Fraches, which by degrees are drawn by the Sarole men all along the Leer … that the Glasses may cool Gradatim.

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1799.  G. Smith, Laboratory, I. 167. They are drawn out on iron pans, called fraches.

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1832.  G. R. Porter, Porcelain & Gl., 158. The annealing oven, or lier, is a long, low, rectangular chamber, heated at one end, and 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.

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