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pierglass en · NOUN
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A tall narrow mirror, usually set between two windows, above a pier table
The candleflame and the image of the candleflame caught in the pierglass twisted and righted when he entered the hall and again when he shut the door.
"All the Pretty Horses" by Cormac McCarthy (1992)Her photograph stood before the pierglass.
1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “The Dead”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 231:
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pier table