Meaning of street mirror | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of gossip mirror.

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Examples

“As you're wandering around Dragør, notice⟳ that many of the older houses have⟳ an angled mirror contraption attached to their street-level windows. […] You can see⟳ these street mirrors all across Denmark's small towns and sometimes in the older neighborhoods of the bigger cities.”

“She walked east through Old City, where Philadelphia had begun. Here and there you could still stumble across a cobblestone street, across eighteenth-century houses with painted cornices and street mirrors.”

“For example, ten years ago an Amsterdam prostitute could report⟳ that by using her street mirror, she could see⟳ men coming 'before they see⟳ me', and that refusing anyone was 'my right and my security' […]”

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