pier glass
Example Sentences
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The place is unpretentiously furnished with family antiques, including alabaster figures of Venus & Adonis under an Early American pier glass.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is no pier glass in our house for me to practice on.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Behind my half-head, in the center of the picture, in the empty sky, a pier glass is hanging, convex and encircled by an ornate frame.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
“Please answer,” said Palla, fastening her gown before the pier glass.
From The Crimson Tide A Novel by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
All that Trudy had considered as really essential to the making of a home was a phonograph and a pier glass; the rest was simple––rent a furnished place and wear out someone else’s things.
From The Gorgeous Girl by Nalbro Bartley
