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look·ing glass
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Princeton's WordNet
looking glass, glassnoun
a mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror
Wiktionary
looking glassnoun
A mirror
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Looking-glassnoun
Mirror; a glass which shews forms reflected.
Etymology: look and glass.
Command a mirror hither straight,
That it may shew me what a face I have.
—— Go some of you and fetch a looking-glass. William Shakespeare.There is none so homely but loves a looking-glass. South.
We should make no other use of our neighbours faults, than we do of a looking-glass to mend our own manners by. Roger L'Estrange.
The surface of the lake of Nemi is never ruffled with the least breath of wind, which perhaps, together with the clearness of its waters, gave it formerly the name of Diana’s looking-glass. Joseph Addison, on Italy.
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looking glass
A looking glass is a mirror or other reflective surface through which one can view their appearance or surroundings. It is often used metaphorically to represent a means of gaining insight or self-reflection. The term may also refer to a variety of inspection tools such as a magnifying glass or telescope.
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Looking Glass
Looking Glass was an American pop music group of the early 1970s that was part of the Jersey Shore sound. They are best remembered for their million selling 1972 song, "Brandy".
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of looking glass in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of looking glass in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of looking glass in a Sentence
It is not a question of observation which propels mankind forward as if toward a looking glass of great magnitude; it is an instance of aggrandized reflection that insinuates the human psyche to the inhuman.
The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
If you're parked off somebody's coast with a 300-mile looking glass, that's pretty phenomenal.
Paul Dergarabedian of comScore:
Jeff Bock, a box office analyst with Exhibitor Relations, declared to Variety. But Ben-Hur isn't the only epic fail. Proving that Americans aren't impressed with much of Hollywood's summer slate, there have been multiple flops, including the Ghostbusters remake, Alice Through The Looking Glass, Star Trek Beyond, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Independence Day: Resurgence, The Legend of Tarzan, Warcraft, X Men: Apocalypse, and the Steven Spielberg directed fantasy, The BFG. Still, as The Wrap just reported, North American ticket sales are up 2.84 percent over 2015 receipts at this time. The films have cumulatively earned an astounding $4.14 billion domestic in figures calculated from 108 days after the first Friday in May until Aug. 22. This summer suffered from the problem of perception versus reality.
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