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looking_glass
looking glass
See also: looking-glass
English
Noun
looking glass (plural looking glasses)
- A mirror.
- The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. - William Makepeace Thackeray
- 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess:
- Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.
Translations
mirror — see mirror