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

Her eyes, with uncommon eagerness, wandered over every part of her dress, and were seldom removed, unless to take a general survey of the whole in a pier glass.

From The Looking-Glass for the Mind or Intellectual Mirror by Bewick, John

She stood up, looking at herself and performing a graceful pirouette before the long pier glass.

From The Haunted Pajamas by Elliott, Francis Perry