lorgnon

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  1. An eye-glass, or a pair of eye-glasses, shutting into a frame which when in use serves as a handle, intended for examining objects at a little distance: also sometimes used as synonymous with opera-glass or lorgnette. She raises to her eyes of blue Her lorgnon, as she looks at you. The Atlantic, LXIII. 649.

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  • On the glass of his own opera-lorgnon, perhaps:—shall we ask him to try that But first, I want to ask you something—I have had it in my head a long time, but it might as well have been in a box—and indeed if it had been in the box with your letters, I should have remembered to speak of it long ago. —  The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 1845-1846
  • AmE lieuténant, BrE lefténant littérateur literatër lorgnette, lorgnon lornyét, lornyón louche loôsh luthier-a maker of stringed instruments such as violins or guitars məshêen madame brothel, Madame title madáme, cf. mádam shopping madeleine mádeleíne mademoiselle madame wàzél maisonette maizonét maître d'hôtel métradô-tél, mâitradô-tél maladroit maladrŏit malcontent malines malêen mandoline (also 'mandolin' in English) mándə-lín margarine marjərìne marmalade - màrmalâde marmite marquee —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • AmE lieuténant, BrE lefténant littérateur literatër lorgnette, lorgnon lornyét, lornyón louche - disreputable loôsh lunes —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • They say he wept Mrs. Hilliard considered him through her lorgnon, but the man was busy with the napery and escaped punishment The house is pretty famous, too," he went on. —  The Henchman
  • He neither eyes the world through a lorgnette or a lorgnon, nor affects a knowledge of all things, nor even hints at it. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
 

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