ˌThrough the ˈLooking-Glass
(1872) a book for children by Lewis Carroll in which the main character, Alice, a little girl, visits a strange world by stepping through a mirror. Many of the people she meets are chess pieces or characters from nursery rhymes (=old songs or poems for young children) such as Humpty Dumpty. ⇒ Alice in Wonderland, Tweedledum and Tweedledee

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