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lorgnon

[lawr-nyawn] / lɔrˈnjɔ̃ /
NOUN
monocle
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For an instant they wavered, for Caterina had sprung upon the float and was gazing at them through her lorgnon.

From Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams) Champney

Introductions to the Dorrances followed, and then Miss Van Arsdale raised her lorgnon, and treated Dorothy to a prolonged inspection.

From The Dorrance Domain by Carolyn Wells

Mascha puts up her lorgnon, looks into the room.

From Boris Lensky by Ossip Schubin

In fact, like many an actor in the drama of life, he really knew less about the general mise-en-scene than I, who had only reviewed it through the lorgnon of Tennyson and other contemporary writers.

From Love's Usuries by Louis Creswicke

She was coldly staring at Harris through a platinum lorgnon.

From The Innocents A Story for Lovers by Sinclair Lewis

Some of the women stared at the people going by with lorgnons.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

Both Mrs. Belknap-Jackson and Mrs. Effie wielded their lorgnons upon the later comers, thus giving their table quite an air.

From Ruggles of Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson

From their seats women put up their lorgnons to look at her, passers-by turned round and stared.

From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke

This lorgnon was a new device of hers, and it was already having the happy effect of increasing the sale of long-handled lorgnons throughout the Five Towns.

From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett

Mrs. Belknap-Jackson and Mrs. Effie, after a period of futile glaring at her through the lorgnons, seemed to make their resolves simultaneously, and forthwith themselves lighted cigarettes.

From Ruggles of Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson


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