looking glass

look·ing glass

(lo͝ok′ĭng)n. See mirror.

looking glass

n a mirror, esp a ladies' dressing mirror adj with normal or familiar circumstances reversed; topsy-turvy: a looking-glass world. [sense 2 in allusion to Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass]

look′ing glass`

n. 1. a mirror. 2. the glass used in a mirror. [1526]

look′ing-glass`

adj. having the normal elements or circumstances reversed; topsy-turvy: a looking-glass world. [alluding to the reversed world in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass (1871)]

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Noun

looking glass - a mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirrorglassmirror - polished surface that forms images by reflecting light

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looking glass

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looking glass

look′ing glass`

look′ing-glass`

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Synonyms for looking glass

noun a mirror

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