looking glass

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Equivalents

Examples

“Many sorts of glass were in the market, called Lambeth or Ratcliffe, Normandy, German, white and green, Dutch, Newcastle, Staffordshire, and Bristol glass, looking glass and jealous glass. […] Looking glass plates were sometimes used in windows.”

“17th Drew in the dead body in the corrected sketch⟳ in Pen & Ink. It is rather dreary. Worked at sundries from Self in the looking glass (8 hours). / 18th worked all day from self in looking glass in shirts & draws. […]”

“It has been quite a week in politics. […] I know⟳ that some Republicans feel⟳ as if they've fallen through the looking glass.”

“It feels like⟳ I've stepped through the looking glass and am wandering in a topsy-turvy world where the fixpoints we have⟳ lived with for decades have⟳ gone. Not just moved... gone.”

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