| 单词 | reflecting glass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasreflecting glass reflecting glass n. now archaic a mirror; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > mirror > [noun] sunshineeOE showerOE glass13.. mirrorc1330 spectaclec1430 mirror glass1440 beryl-glass1540 reflecting glass?a1560 reflective1720 show-glass1810 shiner1819 ?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. xxi. sig. Gij The Parabola for his small distance, most perfectly doth vnite beames, and most vehemently burneth of all other reflecting glasses. 1734 I. Watts Reliquiæ Juveniles Pref. p. xiv When a reflecting Glass shews the Deformities of a Face so plain as to point to the Person, [etc.]. 1857 R. B. Stratton Captivity of Oatman Girls (1858) 84 His movements were a reflecting glass, in which we could as plainly read some dire catastrophe was breeding for us. 1987 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 77 63 The poem itself, referred to as a ‘mirroure’ by Jean de Meun, is both a reflecting glass and a lens radiating and deflecting light upon love and lovers. 2000 J. Schenkar Truly Wilde ii. 33 Everything is slightly distorted by the patinations of the old reflecting glass. < as lemmas |
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