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looking-glasses

looking-glasses is the plural of looking-glass.

Meaning of looking-glass

Noun

looking-glass (plural looking-glasses)

  1. (dated) Synonym of mirror (“smooth surface that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it”).
    • A Divine Looking-Glaſs: Or, The third and laſt Teſtament of our Lord, JESUS CHRIST, […] [title]1661, John Reeve; Lodowick Muggleton [i.e., Lodowicke Muggleton], A Divine Looking-glass: Or, The Third and Last Testament of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, […], [London]: Printed […] and reprinted for...
    Synonyms:
    mirror
  2. A way into a bizarre world.
    • It has been quite a week in politics. […] I know that some Republicans feel as if they've fallen through the looking glass.2016 July 29, Paul Krugman, “Who loves America?”, in The New York Times
    Synonyms:
    rabbit hole

Questions about looking-glasses

What is looking-glasses the plural of?
Looking-glasses is the plural of looking-glass.

Words near looking-glasses in the dictionary

  1. looking up
  2. looking up and down
  3. looking up to
  4. looking upon
  5. looking-glass
  6. looking-glasses
  7. Lookingglass
  8. lookings
  9. lookism
  10. lookist
  11. lookists

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