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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pair of eyeglasses or opera glasses with a short handle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An opera-glass.
- noun A lorgnon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An opera glass.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
opera glass with ahandle . - noun Elaborate double
eyeglasses .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun eyeglasses that are held to the eyes with a long handle
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Behind the lorgnette was a large and frowning dowager, who followed up the glare with a loud "Shhh!"
An Unacceptable Offer Balogh, Mary 1988
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"lorgnette" that had been handed to them was a new invention of Thomas A. Edison.
newsleader.com - 2009
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“The funny mistress of five or six accents,” Jane regaled them all with the story of her dinner party, successively taking the part of a lecherous old Oxonian who was trying to pinch her bottom, a drunk Ceylonese official, and a dry old colonial widow with a lorgnette.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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“The funny mistress of five or six accents,” Jane regaled them all with the story of her dinner party, successively taking the part of a lecherous old Oxonian who was trying to pinch her bottom, a drunk Ceylonese official, and a dry old colonial widow with a lorgnette.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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A woman behind me taps me on the shoulder with her lorgnette—out of tempo, by the way—and my new friend and I break it off as the curtain comes up.
Thoughts on High Culture: Opening Night at the Ballet Con Chapman 2011
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Lalique's flora and fauna are everywhere—nude feminine figures with insect wings on a necklace, a lizard lorgnette, an ivy and clover hatpin, swans here, wheat sheaves there, a pair of white peacocks with multicolor tails standing on a heart-shaped citrine.
A Display of Lalique's Beauty Judy Fayard 2011
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A woman behind me taps me on the shoulder with her lorgnette—out of tempo, by the way—and my new friend and I break it off as the curtain comes up.
Thoughts on Culture at the Boston Ballet Con Chapman 2011
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Sotheby 's (Nov. 14) will lead its sale with jeweled pieces made for the Chinese and Turkish markets in the 18th-19th century, including a rare gold, enamel diamond and pearl-set lorgnette watch circa 1810 (estimate: 150,000 francs-200,000 francs).
Celebrating Rare Jewels Margaret Studer 2010
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This was a person … of a particular kind, no longer young … with rather long, still thick, dark hair, slightly streaked with grey and a pointed beard … He had no watch, but he had a tortoiseshell lorgnette on a black ribbon.
The 10 best devils 2010
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I think she thought that Joan would look at her through a lorgnette, and that Stenning would wear a morning-coat and talk about the League.
Movie Night 2010
Related Words
synonyms (30)
Words with the same meaning
- Polaroid glasses
- bifocals
- blinkers
- cheaters
- colored glasses
- contact lens
- dark glasses
- divided spectacles
- eyeglass
- eyeglasses
- glasses
- goggles
- granny glasses
- harlequin glasses
- horn-rimmed glasses
- lorgnon
- mini-specs
- monocle
- nippers
- pair of glasses
- peepers
- quizzing glass
- readers
- reading glasses
- shades
- specs
- spectacles
- sun-specs
- sunglasses
- trifocals
hypernyms (4)
Words that are more generic or abstract
same context (19)
Words that are found in similar contexts
rhymes (144)
Words with the same terminal sound
- Annette
- Antoinette
- Bernadette
- Bizet
- Bret
- Brett
- Burnett
- Calumet
- Chalmette
- Chet
- Colette
- Corvette
- Deseret
- Fayette
- Georgette
- Gillette
- Henriette
- Janette
- Jeanette
- Jeannette
- Lafayette
- Lett
- Linette
- Lisette
- Louisette
- Lynette
- Marquette
- Met
- Net
- Nicolet
- Nicolette
- Odette
- Olivette
- Paulette
- Piet
- Reset
- Set
- Tagamet
- Tet
- Tibet
- Willamette
- Wynette
- Yvette
- abet
- anisette
- baguette
- barbette
- baronet
- barrette
- beget
- beset
- bet
- bett
- boulet
- bret
- brett
- brunet
- brunette
- burnette
- cabriolet
- cadet
- calumet
- cassette
- charette
- charrette
- chevrette
- choquette
- cigarette
- clarinet
- cornet
- cornette
- coronet
- corvette
- cossette
- couchette
- debt
- diskette
- doucet
- duet
- et
- falconet
- fette
- flageolet
- forget
- forgette
- fret
- frett
- gazette
- georgette
- get
- intermet
- jet
- jette
- juliette
- kett
- kitchenette
- let
- lorette
- luncheonette
- met
- mette
- minaret
- minette
- minuet
- net
- nett
- nyet
- octet
- offset
- pet
- piet
- pipette
- piquette
- preset
- pret
- quartet
- quintet
- regret
- reset
- ret
- rosette
- roulette
- set
- sette
- sextet
- silhouette
- sobriquet
- statuette
- stet
- suffragette
- surette
- sweat
- threat
- tourette
- unmet
- unset
- upset
- vedette
- vet
- vignette
- wet
- whet
- yet
- yett
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