monocle
noun
an eyeglass for one eye.
monocled
-
a word derived from
monocle.
Example Sentences
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Under more ordinary circumstances, the cover of the issue for February 13 and 20, 2017—our Anniversary Issue, marking ninety-two years—would feature some version of Rea Irvin’s classic image of the monocled dandy Eustace Tilley.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 3, 2017
For the convention, Mr. Schmitz secured one of the company’s NUT-mobiles, giant peanut-shaped vans that travel the country to help mark the monocled mascot’s centennial.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2016
I visited one collector who had 30 monocled cobras, Gaboon vipers, and other venomous snakes in aquarium-like enclosures lining the walls of a converted bedroom.
From Slate ● Dec. 7, 2015
A monocled cobra, a West African spitting cobra and a timber rattlesnake were found at a home in Cresaptown, state Natural Resources Police said.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 24, 2015
At one time, I suppose, Duncan would have called his monocled captain out.
From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)
