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
Example Sentences
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Mrs. Pope observed it critically through her gold lorgnon.
From The Brute by Kummer, Frederic Arnold
He did not see her, but the lady facing him put up a tortoiseshell-handled lorgnon and gazed through it and through narrowed eyelids at the new comer.
From The Literary Sense by Nesbit, E. (Edith)
"It looks as if some one had fallen in a fit," said Mrs. Stuart, looking through her lorgnon.
From By Right of Conquest A Novel by Hornblow, Arthur
Valencia Valletort's luminous eyes had gleamed that night under their lashes, and pierced through the lenses of his lorgnon.
From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida
Joanna put up her lorgnon and looked at her daughter.
From The War-Workers by Delafield, E.M.
Some of the women stared at the people going by with lorgnons.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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 Wilson, Harry Leon
The Society ladies turned eagerly in their seats to take in through their lorgnons every detail of the interruption.
From The Hampstead Mystery by Watson, John R. (John Reay)
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 Wilson, Harry Leon
This lorgnon was a new device of hers, and it was already having the happy effect of increasing the sale of long-handled lorgnons throughout the Five Towns.
From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold
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