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

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 • Oct. 26, 2018

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

I could tell by her abrupt manner, and the way she tapped her lorgnette against her teeth, that she was questing possibilities.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier