Meaning of gossip-mirror | Babel Free

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.”

“These "gossip-mirrors," about the size of horses' blinders, are two-faced. They survey the narrow street in both directions, catching whatever passes, coming or going. […] The gossip-mirrors of Ribe are much more numerous than the storks for which the town is renowned.”

“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.”

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