cheval glass
nounEtymology
From French cheval (“horse, supporting frame”) (see chevalet) + glace (“mirror”).
Definitions
A long mirror, mounted on a swivel in a frame, allowing it to be tilted.
- It was a large room, […] furnished, among other things, with a cheval-glass and a business table, and looking out upon the court by three dusty windows barred with iron.
- Next, in the course of their review of the chamber, the searchers came to the cheval-glass, into whose depths they looked with an involuntary horror. […]
- Next to the cheval-glass, Kit noticed a pale dressing-gown, of all-but-insubstantial chiffon, not draped over a chair but standing erect, […].
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA