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cheval glasses

cheval glasses is the plural of cheval glass.

Meaning of cheval glass

Noun

cheval glass (plural cheval glasses)

  1. A long mirror, mounted on a swivel in a frame, allowing it to be tilted.
    • It was a large room, […] furnished, among other things, with a cheval-glass and a business table, and looking out upon the court by three dusty windows barred with iron.1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Incident of the Letter”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 45
    Synonyms:
    cheval mirror

Questions about cheval glasses

What is cheval glasses the plural of?
Cheval glasses is the plural of cheval glass.

Words near cheval glasses in the dictionary

  1. chevage
  2. chevages
  3. cheval
  4. cheval de frise
  5. cheval glass
  6. cheval glasses
  7. cheval mirror
  8. cheval mirrors
  9. cheval-glass
  10. cheval-glasses
  11. chevalet

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