cheval glass

Example Sentences

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Near the window stood a superb full-length Empire cheval glass, the kind that women love to dress by and survey their beauty.

From The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life by Walter, Eugene

The last speech was delivered in front of a cheval glass, before which the speaker had stopped, as if to admire her person.

From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne

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

From A Duel by Marsh, Richard

I went home and took a long survey of myself in the mirror, a cheval glass that showed me from crown to toe.

From A Black Adonis by Porter, Linn Boyd

As at the completion of his toilet he stood with a pair of stiff military brushes working at his hair and whiskers, before a big cheval glass, he looked eminently British for his day.

From VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea by Murray, David Christie