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looking glass
noun
- a mirror made of glass with a metallic or amalgam backing.
- the glass used in a mirror.
- anything used as a mirror, as highly polished metal or a reflecting surface.
looking glass
noun
- a mirror, esp a ladies' dressing mirror
adjective
- with normal or familiar circumstances reversed; topsy-turvy
a looking-glass world
Word History and Origins
Origin of looking glass1
Word History and Origins
Origin of looking glass1
Example Sentences
The through-the-looking-glass trope used in Purple Rose of Cairo and a couple of other Allen films again.
Just before you pass through the Looking Glass, you are looking at your own reflection.
The Looking Glass effect is routine for many travelers returning from a distant place.
The Looking Glass exists for everyone who travels back from violent places of the earth.
This is a perfect window into the through-the-looking-glass world of blasphemy-ban advocates.
"Go on talking," returned Eveline, who was standing before the looking-glass washing the paint off her face.
A candle stood in an empty soda-water bottle on each side of the looking-glass, and there was no other light.
I'm off of the Pennsy myself, and I'm ashamed to look in the looking-glass since I came out here.
It would be more like your fate to fall down cellar and break the looking-glass and set yourself on fire.
I'd love to try my fate walking down cellar backwards with a looking-glass in one hand and a candle in the other.
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