gossip-mirror

See also: gossip mirror

English

Noun

gossip-mirror (plural gossip-mirrors)

  1. Alternative form of gossip mirror.
    • 1891 June, Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, “The Elixir of Pain. Chapter X.”, in The Cosmopolitan: A Monthly Illustrated Magazine, volume XI, number 2, New York, N.Y.: The Cosmopolitan Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 205, column 2:
      Röschen was keeping watch at the gossip-mirror in the library window, and would give warning as soon as she saw the great R and his Hindoo adept in the distance.
    • 1951, Hudson Strode, “Ancient Ribe and the New Seaport”, in Denmark Is a Lovely Land, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, section X (Peninsula of Jutland), page 252:
      These "gossip-mirrors," about the size of horses' blinders, are two-faced. They survey the narrow street in both directions, catching whatever passes, coming or going. […] The gossip-mirrors of Ribe are much more numerous than the storks for which the town is renowned.
    • 1952, March Cost [pseudonym; Margaret Mackie Morrison], “Thursday … 10 a.m.”, in The Hour Awaits, 1st American edition, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC, page 86:
      Hand in hand after dinner they wandered through the streets of narrow, stilted houses with heavy, ornate balconies and brilliant doors, set in dull yellow or olive stucco, and their passage was reflected at all angles from the gossip-mirror adroitly fixed to every window.
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