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gossip-mirror

gossip-mirror is the alternative form of gossip mirror.

Meaning of gossip mirror

Noun

gossip mirror (plural gossip mirrors)

  1. A mirror or pair of mirrors mounted outside a window, allowing the viewer to see along a street while remaining indoors.
    • Röschen was keeping watch at the gossip-mirror in the library window, and would give warning as soon as she saw the great R and his Hindoo adept in the distance.1891 June, Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, “The Elixir of Pain. Chapter X.”, in The Cosmopolitan: A Monthly Illustrated Magazine, volume XI, number 2, New York, N.Y.: The Cosmopolitan Publishing Company...
    Synonyms:
    street mirror

Forms of gossip-mirror

pluralgossip-mirrors

Questions about gossip-mirror

What is gossip-mirror the alternative form of?
Gossip-mirror is the alternative form of gossip mirror.

Words near gossip-mirror in the dictionary

  1. gossip mirror
  2. gossip mirrors
  3. gossip'd
  4. gossip-mill
  5. gossip-mills
  6. gossip-mirror
  7. gossip-mirrors
  8. gossip-prone
  9. gossipdom
  10. gossiped
  11. gossipee

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gossip-mirror (page history and authors); gossip mirror (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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