binocle¹

[bin-uh-kuh l]

noun

Origin of binocle¹

1690–1700; < French < Latin bīn(ī) bin- + oculus eye

[bahy-nuhk-uh l]

noun

a card game of the bezique family that is played by two persons with a 48-card pack, the lowest card of which is nine.

see origin at pinochle

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Here he plants his binocle on his nose, leans back and stares at me.
Happy-Thought Hall
F. C. Burnand
Picking up a binocle, which lay on the table, he turned to look toward Mt. HoodSublime!
An Oregon Girl
Alfred Ernest Rice
Binocle, bin′o-kl, n. a telescope through which an object can be viewed with both eyes at the same time.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)
Various
Something seems to attract his gaze, for he holds the binocle steadily toward the south.
Trumpeter Fred
Charles King

1690s, from French binocle (17c.), from Latin bini- "two by two, twofold, two apiece" (see binary) + oculus "eye" (see eye (n.)).