cheval glass

From French cheval (“horse, supporting frame”) (see chevalet) + glace (“mirror”).

cheval glass (plural cheval glasses)

1. A long mirror, mounted on a swivel in a frame, allowing it to be tilted.
   • 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 45:

     It was a large room, […] furnished, among other things, with a cheval-glass and a business table, and looking out upon the court by three dusty windows barred with iron.

   • 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, pages 86–87:

     Next, in the course of their review of the chamber, the searchers came to the cheval-glass, into whose depths they looked with an involuntary horror. […]

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Bilocations”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 542:

     Next to the cheval-glass, Kit noticed a pale dressing-gown, of all-but-insubstantial chiffon, not draped over a chair but standing erect, […] .

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