lorgnon
Americannoun
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a monocle or pair of spectacles
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another word for lorgnette
Etymology
Origin of lorgnon
1840–50; < French, equivalent to lorgn ( er ) ( see lorgnette) + -on noun suffix
Example Sentences
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The Countess meanwhile, with lorgnon at her eyes, indifferently gazes at her surroundings.
From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Schubin, Ossip
She even put up her lorgnon and though she was not very tall, she contrived to look Hector through them straight between the eyes.
From The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
Mrs. Pope observed it critically through her gold lorgnon.
From The Brute by Kummer, Frederic Arnold
The lady put up her lorgnon and bowed amiably to Miss Landgrave, who was talking eagerly to her uncle....
From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James
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)
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