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
A dress closet with mirrors on the doors, that turn back to make a three-fold dressing glass.
From Ethel Morton at Sweetbriar Lodge by Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)
Standing before the dressing glass, was a middle-aged lady in yellow curl-papers, busily engaged in brushing what ladies call their “back hair.”
From Bardell v. Pickwick by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington
Unconsciously, he was gazing straight before him into the dressing glass, faintly reflecting, in the pale, grey light of the summer night, the objects around.
From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 29, May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
They rearranged the bows of their cravats in front of the big dressing glass and gave each other a mutual dose of the clothesbrush, for they were all white from their close contact with Nana.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile
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