looking glass

noun

: mirror

Examples of looking glass in a Sentence

always remember that the image is reversed in the looking glass
Recent Examples on the Web That’s the sort of spontaneous talking point among friends and family that the museum encourages through this looking glass back to our childhoods. Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 28 May 2024 Interactive stories Lintel 25 is one of a handful of mirror-image inscriptions that were designed as interactive experiences, where ancient visitors could figuratively travel to the land beyond the looking glass. James L. Fitzsimmons, The Conversation, 1 May 2024 To see what that side of the looking glass looks like for someone, just because that was the start of watch parties. Michael Calore Lauren Goode, WIRED, 9 May 2024 Everett sends Mark Twain’s classic through the looking glass. Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024 The runaway greenhouse effect may play out here millions of years from now, making Venus the looking glass into Earth’s future. Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2024 Love, breakups, self-reflection and grief are all present throughout the eight-track project, a looking glass into her intricate and impressively balanced mind. Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 1 Dec. 2023 Previously unaware that Red Dirt as a scene existed, Butts walked through a looking glass that night, meeting Great Divide frontman Mike McClure, who went on to produce Butts’ 2014 debut, Same Hell, Different Devil. Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2023 His brain was always challenging me to keep looking from the other side of the looking glass. Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 2 Sep. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1526, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of looking glass was in 1526

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“Looking glass.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/looking%20glass. Accessed 2 Jun. 2024.

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