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cheval-glass

n. (alternative form of cheval glass English)

Usage examples of "cheval-glass".

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.

It was a large room fitted round with glass presses, 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.

It was a large room, fitted round with glass presses, 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.

Up jumped mademoiselle for the second time, and tripped across the room to a cheval-glass.

There was a cheval-glass in her room and she couldn't help seeing that she looked well in her ruby dress.

The contents of servants' rooms, piles of excellent bed-linen, Turkey carpet -- worn but with many a year left in it -- stair carpets and gleaming brass stair-rods for those who can still persuade maidservants to polish them, sixty-eight yards of Brussels carpet from an upstairs corridor, long runs of magazines for decades out of publication, lowly po-boxes from the domestic quarters, a cheval-glass at which the serĀ­.