单词 | glancing-glass |
释义 | > as lemmasglancing-glass glancing-glass n. Scottish ‘a glass used by children for reflecting the rays of the sun on any object’ (Jamieson). In quots. figurative. ΚΠ 1728 P. Walker Some Remarkable Passages Life A. Peden (ed. 3) 95 A glazing Glancing-glass, who loves to hear himself speak, and the World to notice him. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 320 Gazing, glancing-glasses they are, fit only to fling the glaiks in folks een. < as lemmas |
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