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noun

a tall mirror, often full-length, intended to be set between windows.

Origin:
1695–1705

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pier glass

—n
	a tall narrow mirror, usually one of a pair or set, designed to hang on the wall between windows, usually above a pier table

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"Your pier-glass or extensive surface of polished steel ... will be minutely and multitudinously scratched in all directions; but place now against it a lighted candle as a centre of illumination, and lo! the scratches will seem to arrange themselves in a fine series of concentric circles round that little sun. It is demonstrable that the scratches are going everywhere impartially, and it is only your candle which produces the flattering illusion of a concentric arrangement, its light falling with an exclusive optical selection. These things are a parable. The scratches are events, and the candle is the egoism of any person now absent."

-George Eliot

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