Definition of "Crystal"

"Crystal's pretty. The name, I mean."Jewel shook her head. "It doesn't look like her. She looks like Beaver Cleaver." […] Crys chuckled. For the first time since she'd planted herself fiercely on Lusa's driveway that morning she sounded clear and transparent, like a child. Like the crystal she was.

2000, Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer, HarperCollins, pages 121, 298

"No prob. I'm wired, anyway...Christa or Crystal. Why'd Kayla peg her for a stripper?""Because Gavin said she was a dancer," I said."Well," he said, "name a girl Crystal and what's more likely? That she'll get a Ph.D. in biomechanics, or end up shaking her tail for tips?"

2004, Jonathan Kellerman, Therapy, page 335

Crystal just stood there with a semisad look on her face.

2013, Chuck Dozier, The Second Time Around, page 167

In this exhilarating and often hilarious book, David Crystal examines why we devote so much time and energy to language games, how professionals make a career of them, and how young children instinctively take to them.

1998, David Crystal, Language Play