looking glass


noun

a mirror made of glass with a metallic or amalgam backing.
the glass used in a mirror.
anything used as a mirror, as highly polished metal or a reflecting surface.

Origin of looking glass

First recorded in 1520–30

British Dictionary definitions for looking glass

looking glass

noun

a mirror, esp a ladies' dressing mirror

adjective looking-glass

with normal or familiar circumstances reversed; topsy-turvy a looking-glass world

Word Origin for looking glass

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