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Definition of Looking glass
1. Noun. A mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror.
Definition of Looking glass
1. Noun. A mirror ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Looking Glass
Literary usage of Looking glass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Colonial Furniture in America by Luke Vincent Lockwood (1921)
"Looking-Glass with walnut and gilt frame, 1725-50 293 327. ... Looking-Glass with
mahogany inlaid and gilt frame, about 1790 305 347. ..."
2. A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson (1885)
"XXXV LOOKING-GLASS RIVER SMOOTH it slides upon its travel, Here a wimple, there
a gleam— O the clean gravel! O the smooth stream ! ..."
3. The Furniture of Our Forefathers by Esther Singleton, Russell Sturgis (1913)
"As we shall see, the looking-glass with gilded or olive-wood frame is frequently
... The looking-glass was sometimes fixed on the top of a chest of drawers. ..."
4. Introduction to the English Reader, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and by Lindley Murray (1813)
"The looking-glass; or, ill-humour corrected. JL HERE was a little stubborn ...
All this the Looking.glass achiev'd ; Its threats were minded, and believ'd. ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1894)
"'A Divine Looking- Glass,' &c., 1056 (a revised edition, with omissions, was
issued by Muggleton, ... A Looking- Glass for George Fox,' &c. 1668. 13. ..."
6. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1898)
"Trie next time Alice dreams, she steps through the looking- glass; in this land
the people are all chessmen, and the country is divided up like a chessboard ..."
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