dressing glass
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of dressing glass
First recorded in 1705–15
Example Sentences
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A large dressing glass faced a white marble toilet table, which was garnished with a disorderly array of flasks and glass boxes containing oils, essences and powders.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile
If you are going to arrange your hair before your dressing table, you want a light directly over your dressing glass.
From Ethel Morton at Sweetbriar Lodge by Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)
She went to the dressing glass and loosened her hair, and let it fall all over her shoulders to relieve her burning head.
From Self-Raised Or, From the Depths by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte
The count went up to the dressing glass and discovered that he was looking very flushed and had small drops of perspiration on his forehead.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile
The woman began by removing her gloves and bonnet before a dressing glass, which was kept in position by a mangy hair brush thrust between the frame and its supports.
From Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl by Newte, Horace W. C. (Horace Wykeham Can)
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