Etymology

looking-glass

look·ing glass

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

First used 1520s
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The story

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

First known use, by meaning

  • from 1520s Synonym of mirror (“smooth surface that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it”).

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