pier glass
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pier glass (plural pier glasses)
- A tall narrow mirror, usually set between two windows, above a pier table.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Romance and Reality. , volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, page 246:
- To add to her misfortunes, Mr. Marechal occupied the small vista hitherto allowed to terminate in her profile, with an attitude. Sitting opposite a pier-glass has its disadvantages; however, when things come to the worst, they mend.
- 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1141:
- She rose to set her hair to rights in the pier glass while Drexel went on, though talking in a lower key, as if what he had to say might interest only Blanford.
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tall, narrow mirror