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field glasses

British  

plural noun

  1. Former name: field glasses.  another name for binoculars

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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A statue of the impressively bearded Civil War general and former Secretary of War John Rawlins, field glasses in hand, surveys this narrow block-long park from its eastern end.

From Washington Post Apr. 26, 2017

Galileo’s telescopes were refractors, as are today’s binoculars and field glasses.

From Textbooks Oct. 13, 2016

I kind of pull over there, take my field glasses and peer down into the casting yard - where they make the segments - and see if can guess what they’re doing.

From Washington Times Nov. 23, 2015

The naturalist patiently showed me how to use my rental field glasses, moving my gaze from branch to branch until I found my visual prey.

From New York Times Apr. 11, 2014

The king put his field glasses to his eyes and saw what it was.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

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