looking glass

noun

1. a mirror made of glass with a metallic or amalgam backing.

2. the glass used in a mirror.

3. anything used as a mirror, as highly polished metal or a reflecting surface.

looking glass

noun

1. a mirror, esp a ladies' dressing mirror

adjective

1. with normal or familiar circumstances reversed; topsy-turvy

   a looking-glass world

Word History and Origins

Origin of looking glass¹

First recorded in 1520–30

Word History and Origins

Origin of looking glass¹

sense 2 in allusion to Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass

Related Words

• mirror