looking glass

noun

: mirror

Examples of looking glass in a Sentence

always remember that the image is reversed in the looking glass
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Portraying the ghost of Hamlet’s father at the play’s debut, his face and body covered in chalky white paint, his Shakespeare steps through the looking glass and becomes his own tragic player, strutting and fretting his hour upon the stage. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025 The Senate walked through the looking glass over the weekend. Medora Lee, USA Today, 2 July 2025 Like Alice through the looking glass, I was ushered ever deeper into its passageways. Kian Tajbakhsh, The Atlantic, 27 June 2025 Alice’s experience reflects something deep about our own universe: Everything is not the same through the looking glass. Zack Savitsky, Wired News, 22 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for looking glass

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 11 Sep. 2025.

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