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pier_glass

pier glass

See also: pierglass

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pier glass (plural pier glasses)

  1. A tall narrow mirror, usually set between two windows, above a pier table.
    • 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1141:
      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.

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