monocle

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Fashionable glasses or a monocle are also recommended, but avoid wearing shades or any kind of hat.

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  1. noun An eyeglass for one eye.

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  • The professorial Johnny stepped closer and then--monocle, loin cloth and all--skinned up the three-man "rope" with the agility of an acrobat. —  034 - The Fantastic Island
  • He never put this in his eye, and a second glance would disclose that the monocle was really a strong magnifying glass. —  073 - The Freckled Shark
  • Fastened to the underside by the clip which must have originally secured it to a ribbon, was a monocle The boy said the monocle was wrapped in the piece of carpet so that it would not break," Ham explained The monocle is Johnny's," Doc Savage said It certainly is The monocle was an elaborate one. —  042 - The Midas Man
  • Frank didn't look at his monocle, and tried to guess who was tuned and who was natural. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#213
  • Attached to a lapel by a dark ribbon, was a monocle--actually a powerful magnifying glass which Johnny needed in his business and carried as a monocle for convenience We are indulging in unproductive inaction," insisted Johnny Keep your hair on," Long Tom rumbled. —  016 - The King Maker
 

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  1. French, from Late Latin monoculus, having one eye : Greek mono-, mono- + Latin oculus, eye; see okw- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Old French monocle, one-eyed, P. monocle, a single eye-glass, from Late Latin monoculus, one-eyed: see monoculous.
 

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/ˈmɑnəkl/
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