glass à la Psyche

English

Noun

glass à la Psyche (plural glasses à la Psyche)

  1. (historical) A looking-glass specifically designed to give an all round view when preparing one's toilette.
    • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 52:
      On the one side was a stand of moss roses, on the other a dressing-table, and a glass à la Psyche, over whose surface the wax tapers flung a soft light, worthy of any complexion, even had it rivalled the caliph Vathek's pages, whose skins "were fair as the enamel of Frangistan."
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