A Scottish dialect term for a mirror, from keek (to peer or look) plus glass. Still encountered in literary and historical contexts in Scotland and occasionally used with a knowing, archaic flavour. The keeking-glass is a looking glass in Scots speech.
She caught a glimpse of herself in the old keeking-glass above the mantelpiece.
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(Scotland) A mirror.
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