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
Deshayes were kicking yours before a pier glass in the drawing-room.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)
The girl changed quickly, and surveyed herself in the pier glass at the end of the room.
From The Book of All-Power by Wallace, Edgar
