pierglass
See also: pier glass
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pierglass (plural pierglasses)
- A tall narrow mirror, usually set between two windows, above a pier table
- 1914 June, James Joyce, “The Dead”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:
- Her photograph stood before the pierglass.
- "All the Pretty Horses" by Cormac McCarthy (1992)
- The candleflame and the image of the candleflame caught in the pierglass twisted and righted when he entered the hall and again when he shut the door.