cheval glass

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An oval cheval glass reflected the floor on whose long unpolished surface sprawled two magnificent white bear skins.

From Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty by Williams, J. Scott (John Scott)

Then she went to a cheval glass, which mirrored her from head to foot, and glanced at herself.

From A Duel by Marsh, Richard

Soon as the aide-de-camp had closed the door behind him, Santa Anna sprang up from his seat and hastily stumped it to a large cheval glass which stood on one side of the room.

From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Reid, Mayne

She stopped at the cheval glass and arranged her hair with a series of twists that formed a turban secured by loops.

From Whispering Wires by Leverage, Henry

She knew she had always been a beautiful woman—she was sure, when she glanced at herself in the cheval glass in her bedroom, that she had never appeared to greater advantage.

From The Brute by Kummer, Frederic Arnold