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Definition of handglass in English: handglassnounˈhan(d)ɡlɑːs 1A magnifying glass held in the hand. Example sentencesExamples - Arts and crafts, jewelry, handbags, and handglass will be available for purchase.
- Here's the bad news: if you've only got a handglass, often you can't.
- All in all an interesting collection which can be examined under a handglass for the fine detail.
- After the police officer says that it's that thing with her picture on it, the blonde gives him a handglass.
- Though most of the time, we were staring into our handglasses at bits and pieces of rock, or gigantic rocks, wondering what we were supposed to look at.
- Propagation by cuttings of the roots is the most successful method, the cuttings being placed in sand, under a handglass.
2A small mirror with a handle. Example sentencesExamples - He surveyed himself critically in the handglass held in his now free remaining hand.
- She would brush and comb her hair, use a mirror or "handglass", cold creams, lip balms, hair pins, and fragrance.
- Decking herself out in them, she regards herself and the sparkling gems in the handglass that came with them, then bursts into the brilliant ‘Air des Bijous’.
- She rubbed her handglass briskly on her woollen bric-a-brac container.
- My features, the straw yellow hair, the moss green of my eyes, the spray of freckles on my cheekbones dissolved into the silver backing of the handglass.
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