Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small mirror for the toilet; a hand-glass.
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Examples
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She brushed her hair, and when she was finished she checked herself carefully once more in the hand-mirror.
The Empty Family Colm Tóibín 2011
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She brushed her hair, and when she was finished she checked herself carefully once more in the hand-mirror.
The Empty Family Colm Tóibín 2011
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Lerumie coolly ignored him, went down below once and purchased a trade hand-mirror, and, with a look of the eyes, assured old Bashti that all was ready and ripe to break at the first favourable moment.
CHAPTER XI 2010
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As for herself, she scarcely needed the little hand-mirror to know that never, since she was a young girl, had there been such color in her cheeks, such spontaneity of vivacity.
CHAPTER VIII 2010
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Then he went inside and looked at himself in a hand-mirror.
Chapter 13 2010
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Not large automata; small ones, from doll-sized dancers who whirl across the floor to a perfect foot-high old women who walks carefully on her own two feet with help from her cane, to tiny birds no more than an inch long who pop out of a hand-mirror and sing with real whistles.
Archive 2008-08-01 Heather McDougal 2008
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You just had to look at the stately black Aphrodite, regarding herself in a hand-mirror while the pert creamy Claudia dressed her hair, or Josephine perched languidly on a box, contemplating her shapely little feet with satisfaction, or Medea and Cleonie sauntering among the wildflowers with their parasols, or the voluptuous Eugenie reclining in a wagon, sultry-eyed and toying with her fan-no, you could tell they weren't choir-girls.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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My hand-mirror had been broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of the glass in my handkerchief.
Sole Music 2010
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She pulled an iridescent scrunchie of hair from out of nowhere and began to position it around the woman's face, showing her the result in a small hand-mirror.
toupee 2010
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Not large automata; small ones, from doll-sized dancers who whirl across the floor to a perfect foot-high old women who walks carefully on her own two feet with help from her cane, to tiny birds no more than an inch long who pop out of a hand-mirror and sing with real whistles.
Clockwork in the Cold Heather McDougal 2008
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