pierglass

See also: pier glass

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Noun

pierglass (plural pierglasses)

  1. A tall narrow mirror, usually set between two windows, above a pier table
    • 1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “The Dead”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 231:
      Her photograph stood before the pierglass.
    • "All the Pretty Horses" by Cormac McCarthy (1992)
      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.

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