looking-glass

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  1. A plate of glass silvered (coated with quicksilver) on the back, so as to show images by reflection; a plane mirror of glass. The metallic coating is generally an amalgam of tin. A sheet of tin-foil is laid first upon a table and the mercury poured upon it; the glass is then applied horizontally upon the amalgam, to which it readily adheres. All this is very excellently contrived in a faire looking glasse that hangeth at the side of his bedde. Coryat, Crudities, I. 187. There is none so homely but loves a looking-glass. South, Sermons.
  2. Looking-glass plant or
  3. tree an evergreen tree of the genus Heritiera.

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  • After all, it is about a little girl (voice of Dakota Fanning) who enters a menacing through-the-looking-glass world and nearly loses her parents. —  Ottaway Online Editors
  • This was an especially lucky break considering that if we had applied eight weeks later, we would probably not have qualified - an outcome that has become commonplace in the through-the-looking-glass world of London real estate. —  Alanat News
  • But there is another world in America, a through-the-looking-glass universe in which conservative Christians, despite dominating all the branches of government, feel persecuted by the state, in which gun control is seen as the natural precursor to genocide and Bill Clinton is suspected of covering up Iraqi responsibility for the Oklahoma City bombings. —  GreenCine Daily
  • It was hard not to see the merriment as taking place in a looking-glass world. —  The Guardian World News
  • When at Cambridge I used to practise throwing up my gun to my shoulder before a looking-glass to see that I threw it up straight. —  www.blogalaxia.com Directorio y Buscador de Blogs Latinos
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