street mirror

English

Etymology

Calque of Danish gadespejl.

Noun

street mirror (plural street mirrors)

  1. Synonym of gossip mirror.
    • 2002, John D. Rambow, editor, Fodor's Scandinavia‎[1], 9th edition, →ISBN, page 76:
      As you're wandering around Dragør, notice that many of the older houses have an angled mirror contraption attached to their street-level windows. […] You can see these street mirrors all across Denmark's small towns and sometimes in the older neighborhoods of the bigger cities.
    • 2004, Rachel Pastan, This Side of Married‎[2], →ISBN, page 158:
      She walked east through Old City, where Philadelphia had begun. Here and there you could still stumble across a cobblestone street, across eighteenth-century houses with painted cornices and street mirrors.
    • 2006, Carol Wolkowitz, Bodies at Work‎[3], →ISBN, page 141:
      For example, ten years ago an Amsterdam prostitute could report that by using her street mirror, she could see men coming 'before they see me', and that refusing anyone was 'my right and my security' […]
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