English

A man looking at a cheval-glass

Alternative forms

• cheval-glass

Noun

cheval glass ‎(plural cheval glasses)

1. A long mirror, mounted on a swivel in a frame, allowing it to be tilted.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 609:

     Next to the cheval-glass, Kit noticed a pale dressing-gown, of all-but-insubstantial chiffon

   • 1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 17, in The Subtle Minotaur:

     She sheathed her legs in the sheerest of the nylons that her father had brought back from the Continent, and slipped her feet into the toeless, high-heeled shoes of black suède. She rose to her feet and looked at herself in the long cheval mirror; pale, cool, beautiful.

   • 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

     It was a large room, [...] furnished, among other things, with a cheval-glass and a business table