dressing glass
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of dressing glass
First recorded in 1705–15
Example Sentences
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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 Émile Zola
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 Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
Ruth followed her in a few minutes, and going over to the dressing glass stood looking in.
From 'Our Guy' or, The elder brother by Mrs. E. E. Boyd
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 Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith
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
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