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

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

There is no pier glass in our house for me to practice on.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Have you got such a thing as a——” “Tidson,” says Sadie, breakin’ in, “you may roll in the pier glass for the young lady.”

From Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe by Ford, Sewell

Mr. Percival looked at his wife in silence;353 then he picked her up, chair and all, and whirled her around in front of a long pier glass.

From Jewel Weed by Fisher, Harrison