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单词 cheval-glass
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cheval-glassn.

/ʃəˈvɑːlɡlɑːs//ʃəˈvalɡlɑːs//ʃəˈvalɡlas/
Etymology: < French cheval ‘horse’, also ‘support’ + glass n.1
A mirror swung on a frame, and of sufficient length to reflect the whole figure.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > mirror > [noun] > looking-glass
looking-glass1526
Venice glass1527
tooting-glassc1560
seeing-glass1565
girdle-glassa1652
Venice looking-glass1655
considering-glass1660
peeper1673
long glass1680
table glass1688
dressing glass1697
keeking-glassa1724
toilet glass1729
long mirror1793
swing-glass1809
hand glass1832
cheval-glass1836
psyche1838
tire-glass1844
tiring-glass1844
driving mirror1907
wing mirror1925
swing mirror1930
vanity mirror1959
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 14 The stranger surveyed himself..in a cheval glass.
1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xix. 176 The spare bedroom was endowed with..a bed as big as a general's tent, a cheval glass, etc.
1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 29 Sept. 590/1 In the places of business of the great tailors, the cheval-glasses are dim and dusty for lack of being looked into.
1862 M. E. Braddon Lady Audley's Secret I. viii. 138 George Talboys saw his..tall gaunt figure reflected in the cheval-glass.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

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cheval-glass
Used in combination (as in cheval-de-frise, cheval-glass), and in some French phrases, as à cheval ‘on horseback’, ‘with one foot on each side’; in military phraseology ‘in command of two roads or lines of communication’; also transferred; spec. in gambling, applied to a stake risked equally on two chances. (Formerly somewhat naturalized as chival n.)
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > equus caballus or horse > [noun]
horsec825
blonkOE
brockc1000
mareOE
stota1100
caplec1290
foala1300
rouncyc1300
scot1319
caballc1450
jade1553
chival1567
prancer1567
ball1570
pranker1591
roussin1602
wormly1606
cheval1609
sonipes1639
neigher1649
quadruped1660
keffel1699
prad1703
jig1706
hoss1815
cayuse1841
yarraman1848
quad1854
plug1860
bronco1869
gee-gee1869
quadrupedant1870
rabbit1882
gee1887
neddy1887
nanto1889
prod1891
goat1894
skin1918
bang-tail1921
horsy1923
steed-
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > stake > type of stake
double or quit(sa1586
à cheval1609
chicken stake1785
pot1823
the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > alongside [phrase] > on one side > on either side (of a border, country, etc.)
à cheval1832
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > stake > specific type
à cheval1881
the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [adverb] > with one foot on either side
à cheval1931
the world > space > relative position > posture > position of specific body parts > [adverb] > feet
spen-footc1400
à cheval1931
1609–38 T. Heywood Rape Lucrece in Wks. (1874) V. 209 Then mount Chevall Brutus this night take you the charge of the army.
1832 C. MacFarlane Lives Banditti I. i. 22 It is so easy for the criminals to evade pursuit, by constantly keeping themselves (to use a military phrase) à cheval on the line of demarcation of the two countries, and when pursuit is hot in the one, by retreating into the other.
187. Times (O.) The Western Powers will assuredly never permit Russia to place herself à cheval between the Ottoman Empire and Persia.
1881 T. Hardy Laodicean II. iv. iv. 258 Leaving off backing numbers en plein, he laid his venture upon two columns à cheval.
1919 T. E. Lawrence Lett. (1938) 293 If we pay half the Hejaz expenses direct to Mecca, and another share direct to the Government of Syria, we seem reasonably à cheval upon all possible contingencies.
1931 Hartmann Diary 29 Aug. in P. Bauer Kanchenjunga (1955) iii. v. 150 I was able to proceed along the narrow edge à cheval.
1951 E. Coxhead One Green Bottle vi. 161 Alec..had climbed out on to the dizzy crest of the ridge... The thin part in the middle was passed by the daughter à cheval.
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