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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.
Coordinate terms
[edit]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.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “lorgnette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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