pince-nez

English

pince-nez

Etymology

Borrowed from French pince-nez (literally “pinch-nose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pænsˈneɪ/, /pæ̃sˈneɪ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

pince-nez (plural pince-nez)

1. temple-less eyeglasses that clip to the bridge of the nose
   • 1919, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 15, in A Damsel in Distress:

     Lord Belpher, leaning against the wall and trying to decide whether his right or left foot hurt him the more excruciatingly, became aware that a curate was standing before him, regarding him through a pair of gold-rimmed pince-nez with a disapproving and hostile expression.

   • Furst, Alan 2000 Kingdom of Shadows, p170:

     Shabet took a pince-nez from his breast pocket and settled it on the bridge of his nose.

Synonyms

• nose glasses
• Oxford glasses

Translations

type of eyeglasses

• Armenian: պենսնե (hy) (pensne)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: пенснэ́ n (pjensné), пэнснэ́ n (pensné)
• Bulgarian: пенсне́ n (pensné)
• Catalan: pinçanàs m pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 夾鼻眼鏡／夹鼻眼镜 (jiābíyǎnjìng)

• Czech: skřipec (cs) m, cvikr m
• Danish: pincenez c
• Dutch: knijpbril (nl), pince-nez (nl) m
• Esperanto: nazumo (eo)
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: nenälasit pl, pinnelasit pl
• French: pince-nez (fr) m, lorgnon (fr) m
• Georgian: პენსნე (ṗensne)
• German: Zwicker (de) m, Klemmer (de) m, Kneifer (de) m, Pincenez (de) n (dated)
• Greek: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: csiptető (hu), orrcsiptető, cvikker (hu) (dated)
• Hunsrik: please add this translation if you can
• Ido: binoklo (io), naz-binoklo
• Italian: lenti a molla m pl, pince-nez m
• Japanese: 鼻メガネ (はなめがね, hanamegane), 鼻眼鏡 (はなめがね, hanamegane)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 코안경 (koan'gyeong)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: pensnejs m
• Lithuanian: pensnė f
• Macedonian: цвикери pl (cvikeri)
• Polish: binokle (pl) m pl, cwikier (pl) m
• Portuguese: pincenê (pt) m, pencenê (pt), pince-nez (pt) m
• Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: pince-nez (ro) n
• Russian: пенсне́ (ru) n (pensnɛ́)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цвѝкер m

  Roman: cvìker (sh) m

• Slovak: škripec (sk) m
• Slovene: ščipalnik m
• Spanish: quevedos (es) m pl
• Swedish: pincené (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: pins-nez
• Ukrainian: пенсне́ (uk) n (pensné), цві́кер (uk) m (cvíker)
• Uzbek: pensne
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• pince-nez on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛ̃s.ne/

• Audio:

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Noun

pince-nez m (plural pince-nez)

1. pince-nez
2. noseclip

Descendants

• → Catalan: pinçanàs (calque)
• → Russian: пенсне́ n (pensnɛ́)
• → Swedish: pincené c

Further reading

• “pince-nez”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French pince-nez.

Noun

pince-nez n (plural pince-nez-uri)

1. pince-nez

Declension

Declension of pince-nez

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) pince-nez	pince-nezul	(niște) pince-nez-uri	pince-nez-urile
genitive/dative	(unui) pince-nez	pince-nezului	(unor) pince-nez-uri	pince-nez-urilor
vocative	pince-nezule		pince-nez-urilor