lorgnette
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Originally voiced by Jerry Nelson, she sometimes wears a horn-rimmed lorgnette, fans herself with plastic and sings torchy, bluesy songs.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2022
A lyrical aesthete and a Flaubertian prose polisher, he is pictured, in “Lucky Per,” as the sickly poet Enevoldsen, fussing with his lorgnette at a Copenhagen café while worrying about “where to put a comma.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 14, 2019
Here is Smith, sans magic wand, sans the pearls and lorgnette, facing the camera as an unadorned suburban housewife telling her story of hope and desperation with only her voice and facial expressions.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2015
Like the lorgnette, spyglass, and, a direct ancestor, the quizzing glass, the monocle basically originated as a faddish accessory of those with the cash and the inclination to purchase such things.
From Slate ● Dec. 27, 2012
“Something new, Edna?” exclaimed Miss May- blunt, with lorgnette directed toward a magnificent cluster of diamonds that sparkled, that almost sputtered, in Edna’s hair, just over the center of her forehead.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
Vocabulary lists containing lorgnette
Power Suffix: -ette
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The Importance of Being Earnest
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"The Diary of a Madman" by Nikolai Gogol
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