looking glass

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noun
  1. a mirror made of glass with a metallic or amalgam backing.

  2. the glass used in a mirror.

  1. anything used as a mirror, as highly polished metal or a reflecting surface.

Origin of looking glass

1
First recorded in 1520–30

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How to use looking glass in a sentence

  • "Go on talking," returned Eveline, who was standing before the looking-glass washing the paint off her face.

    Black Diamonds | Mr Jkai
  • A candle stood in an empty soda-water bottle on each side of the looking-glass, and there was no other light.

    Hilda | Sarah Jeanette Duncan
  • I'm off of the Pennsy myself, and I'm ashamed to look in the looking-glass since I came out here.

    The Wreckers | Francis Lynde
  • It would be more like your fate to fall down cellar and break the looking-glass and set yourself on fire.

    Mildred's Inheritance | Annie Fellows Johnston
  • I'd love to try my fate walking down cellar backwards with a looking-glass in one hand and a candle in the other.

    Mildred's Inheritance | Annie Fellows Johnston

British Dictionary definitions for looking glass

looking glass

noun
  1. a mirror, esp a ladies' dressing mirror

adjectivelooking-glass
  1. with normal or familiar circumstances reversed; topsy-turvy: a looking-glass world

Origin of looking glass

1
sense 2 in allusion to Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass

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