hall of mirrors

Noun

Meaning

A carnival attraction with curved mirrors (funhouse mirrors) that distort the viewer's appearance.
The hall of mirrors was her favorite attraction at the fair.

(figuratively) A situation confusing for its false appearances, especially when they are compounded upon one another.
The lies had become a hall of mirrors by the time the scam was exposed.

(video games, uncountable) A glitch in some three-dimensional games where a missing texture prevents part of the scene from being rendered correctly, causing a trail of previously rendered frames to appear instead.

Examples

After the addition of the Hall of Mirrors (1678–1684) the king's apartment was reduced to five rooms (until the reign of Louis XV, when two more rooms were added) and the queen's to four. Source: Internet

“No ambassadors had been received in the Hall of Mirrors since the Persian Embassy in 1715, and when the visit of Mehmed Said Efendi, ambassador of the Sublime Porte, was announced, the custom had been somewhat forgotten,” the exhibition says. Source: Internet

In Hall of Mirrors, Barry Eichengreen, a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, argues that knowledge of what happened in the 1930s has been a mixed blessing for today’s policy makers. Source: Internet

Even the mirrors used in the decoration of the Hall of Mirrors were made in France. Source: Internet

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