cheval glass

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   a full length mirror mounted in a frame in which it can be tilted

   Broadermirror

Questions about cheval glass

What does cheval glass mean?

cheval glass means "a full length mirror mounted in a frame in which it can be tilted".

Is cheval glass a common word?

cheval glass is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.