lorgnette
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French lorgnette, from lorgner (“to take a sidelong look at”) (from Middle French lorgne (“crosseyed”)).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lorgnette (plural lorgnettes)
- An opera glass with a handle.
- Synonym: (archaic) lorgnon
- 1869, Mark Twain, chapter XXXII, in The Innocents Abroad, page 340:
- In the valley, near the Acropolis, […] Athens itself could be vaguely made out with an ordinary lorgnette.
- Elaborate double eyeglasses.
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Translations edit
opera glass with a handle
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Further reading edit
French edit
Etymology edit
From lorgner (“to take a sidelong look at”) + -ette, analogous to lunette.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lorgnette f (plural lorgnettes)
- lorgnette
- 1924, Emmanuel Bove, Mes Amis[1]:
- Au théâtre, nous occuperions une loge. En me penchant, je pourrais toucher le rideau. De toute la salle, on nous observerait, avec des lorgnettes.
- At the theatre, we would have a box. If I leant over, I would be able to touch the curtain. The whole auditorium would watch us through lorgnettes.
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Further reading edit
- “lorgnette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.