looking-glass

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Synonym of mirror (“smooth surface that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it”).

   A Divine Looking-Glaſs: Or, The third and laſt Teſtament of our Lord, JESUS CHRIST, […] [title].

2. 2
   noun

   A way into a bizarre world.

   It has been quite a week in politics. […] I know that some Republicans feel as if they've fallen through the looking glass.

* (way into a bizarre world): From the book Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) by Lewis Carroll.

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