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dressing mirror (複数形 dressing mirrors)

1. A large mirror, often as a separate piece of furniture, in which a full-body reflection can be viewed when getting dressed.
   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 521:

     The poem was called Lines for Early Middle Age, and it was signed Fenella Crabbe, but it was impossible that Fenella — twenty-eight or twenty-nine — should think of herself as middle-aged, or even, being a woman and a good-looking woman although a poet, have a proleptic Eliotian image of an aged eagle with tired wings demanding to be released from the dressing-mirror.