pier glass en · NOUN
Meanings
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A tall narrow mirror, usually set between two windows, above a pier table.
She rose to set her hair to rights in the pier glass while Drexel went on, though talking in a lower key, as if what he had to say might interest only Blanford.
1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1141:To add to her misfortunes, Mr. Marechal occupied the small vista hitherto allowed to terminate in her profile, with an attitude. Sitting opposite a pier-glass has its disadvantages; however, when things come to the worst, they mend.
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 246:
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| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| pier glasses | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| pierglass | alternative | lexicographic |
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Translations (7)
cs trymó (tall, narrow mirror) · fr trumeau (tall, narrow mirror) · fi trymoo (tall, narrow mirror) · pl tremo (tall, narrow mirror) · ga scáthán piara (tall, narrow mirror) · de Trumeau (tall, narrow mirror) · ru трюмо́ (tall, narrow mirror)