looking-glass

Meaning

Noun

Synonym of mirror.
A way into a bizarre world.

Origin

Sense 2 (“a way into a bizarre world”) is a reference to the book Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) by English writer and mathematician Lewis Carroll (1832–1898).

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