binocle
English
editEtymology
editFrom French binocle, from Latin bi- (“two”) + oculus (“eye”).
Noun
editbinocle (plural binocles)
- A dioptric telescope, fitted with two tubes joining, so as to enable the viewing of an object with both eyes at once; a double-barrelled field glass or opera glass.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “binocle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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editNoun
editbinocle m (plural binocles)
- opera glass
- 1975, Louis Couperus, "De binocle", in De Revisor, 29 (first published in 1920).
- Reeds sloten enkele winkels in de Pragerstrasse en was het bedrijf gedaan en zag hij een opticien zijn bediende wijzen de luiken voor het raam te stellen, toen hij bedacht geen binocle te hebben.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1975, Louis Couperus, "De binocle", in De Revisor, 29 (first published in 1920).
- field glass (binoculars)
Synonyms
edit(opera glass):
(field glass):
French
editEtymology
editFrom Latin bi- (“two”) + oculus (“eye”).
Pronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
editbinocle m (plural binocles)
- pince-nez
- lorgnette
- (in the plural only) spectacles, eyeglasses, specs
Synonyms
edit- (glasses): lunettes
Derived terms
edit- binoclard (“four-eyed; four-eyes”)
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- >? English: pinochle
Further reading
edit- “binocle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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