Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Glass suitable for mirrors. See mirror-plate.

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Examples

  • He accepted mirror-glass splinters and an alligator on a string and the rose brush, which was all that remained of his grandmother's house.

    Slow Gardening: Stories Outlive Storytellers Blythe 2010

  • I embraced my own reflection and went oozing through the melting mirror-glass, Madrigals voice in my ears, calling.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • I embraced my own reflection and went oozing through the melting mirror-glass, Madrigals voice in my ears, calling.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • I embraced my own reflection and went oozing through the melting mirror-glass, Madrigals voice in my ears, calling.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • When they got there they found a low sign of chiseled granite and a big prosperous mirror-glass cube set behind a tall hurricane fence topped with coils of razor wire.

    Bad Luck and Trouble Child, Lee 2007

  • When they got there they found a low sign of chiseled granite and a big prosperous mirror-glass cube set behind a tall hurricane fence topped with coils of razor wire.

    Bad Luck and Trouble Child, Lee 2007

  • Only the skyscraper man shall survive to rise from the water and shine light upon all the lands of the earth, reflected by his blue mirror-glass shell.

    Archive 2006-09-01 Matthew Sanborn Smith 2006

  • Only the skyscraper man shall survive to rise from the water and shine light upon all the lands of the earth, reflected by his blue mirror-glass shell.

    The Prophecy Matthew Sanborn Smith 2006

  • All the indicators of kitsch converge in Philip Johnson and John Burgee's PPG corporate headquarters of 1979 – 1984 in Pittsburgh, where the shape of Sir Charles Barry's Victoria Tower of 1836 – 1860 for the Palace of Westminster in London was altered in size, function, and material, and transmogrified into a forty-story mirror-glass office building.

    The Bird Man Filler, Martin 2005

  • Entering by the carré, a piece of mirror-glass, set in an oaken cabinet, repeated my image.

    Villette 2003

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