cheval glass
Noun
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Noun
cheval glass (plural cheval glasses)
- A long mirror, mounted on a swivel in a frame, allowing it to be tilted.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 609:
- Next to the cheval-glass, Kit noticed a pale dressing-gown, of all-but-insubstantial chiffon
- 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
- It was a large room, [...] furnished, among other things, with a cheval-glass and a business table
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 609:
- cheval mirror
- French: psyché
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