lorgnon
Americannoun
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a monocle or pair of spectacles
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another word for lorgnette
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of lorgnon
1840–50; < French, equivalent to lorgn ( er ) ( see lorgnette) + -on noun suffix
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Mrs Fanshawe waved her lorgnon, and murmured some vague words which might, or might not, have been intended as an apology.
From The Independence of Claire by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
Mrs. Ames clasped her stiff hands together and dropped the lorgnon on the floor.
From The Silver Butterfly by Howard Chandler Christy
The Countess meanwhile, with lorgnon at her eyes, indifferently gazes at her surroundings.
From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Ossip Schubin
This lorgnon trained itself on Archibald at close range.
From Why Joan? by Eleanor Mercein Kelly
Mrs. Pope observed it critically through her gold lorgnon.
From The Brute by Frederic Arnold Kummer
Some of the women stared at the people going by with lorgnons.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
Mrs. Belknap-Jackson and Mrs. Effie, after a period of futile glaring at her through the lorgnons, seemed to make their resolves simultaneously, and forthwith themselves lighted cigarettes.
From Ruggles of Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson
I saw more than one matron of the North Side set stiffen in her seat, while Mrs. Belknap-Jackson and Mrs. Effie turned upon her the chilling broadside of their lorgnons.
From Ruggles of Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson
They were playing the last act of "La Calomnie," as Vaughan and De Concressault took their places, put up their lorgnons, and looked round the house.
From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida
From their seats women put up their lorgnons to look at her, passers-by turned round and stared.
From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke
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