Meaning of gossip mirror | Babel Free

Definitions

A mirror or pair of mirrors mounted outside a window, allowing the viewer to see along a street while remaining indoors.

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Examples

“Röschen was keeping watch⟳ at the gossip-mirror in the library window, and would give⟳ warning as soon as she saw⟳ the great R and his Hindoo adept in the distance.”

“Hand in hand after dinner they wandered through the streets of narrow, stilted houses with heavy, ornate balconies and brilliant doors, set⟳ in dull yellow or olive stucco, and their passage was reflected at all angles from the gossip-mirror adroitly fixed to every window.”

“There was something of a winter evening’s coziness over the room—to be shut⟳ inside four walls—and besides, it was so good to have⟳ rain⟳, everything needed water so badly, and when it really pelted down and drummed with heavy drops on the casing of the gossip mirror, the sound⟳ called up fleeting, blurred images of lush green fields and fresh leaves, and someone would exclaim to himself: "Look⟳ how it's raining!" and gaze at the windowpanes with a feeling of contentedness and with a little spark of pleasure, in a half-conscious communion with what was outside.”

“Children also enjoy⟳ walking on a cobblestone street while looking for boot scrapers, gossip mirrors and historical artifacts.”

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