lorgnette

Example Sentences

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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

And, like a Brontë sister in a box at the opera, Perry observes the drama from an omniscient perch, examining her characters as if through a lorgnette.

From New York Times

People lost things then that we don’t lose now, simply because we don’t use them: lorgnettes, pince-nez spectacles, chatelaine bags, fox tails, feather boas, auto starter cranks, pocket watches, watch fobs, watch keys .

From Washington Post

Ms. Hamill’s distinctive spin is to read “Pride and Prejudice” through the lorgnette of game theory.

From New York Times

They suggest some of us still feel the local temperance union lurking around the corner, peering at our pleasures through disapproving lorgnettes.

From Washington Post