pierglass
See also: pier glass
English
Alternative forms
Noun
pierglass (plural pierglasses)
- A tall narrow mirror, usually set between two windows, above a pier table
- "The Dead", from "Dubliners" by James Joyce (1914)
- Her photograph stood before the pierglass.
- "All the Pretty Horses" by Cormac McCarthy (1992)
- The candleflame and the image of the candleflame caught in the pierglass twisted and righted when he entered the hall and again when he shut the door.
- "The Dead", from "Dubliners" by James Joyce (1914)