pince-nez

English

pince-nez

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pænsˈneɪ/, /pæ̃sˈneɪ/

Noun

pince-nez (plural pince-nez)

1. temple-less eyeglasses that clip to the bridge of the nose
   • 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

• Oxford glasses

Translations

type of eyeglasses

• Finnish: nenälasit pl, pinnelasit pl
• French: pince-nez (fr) m
• German: Zwicker (de) m
• Ido: binoklo (io), naz-binoklo
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 鼻メガネ (はなめがね, hana-megane)
• Portuguese: pincenê (pt) m, pince-nez (pt) m
• Russian: пенсне́ (ru) n (pensnɛ́)
• Serbo-Croatian: cviker (sh) m
• Spanish: quevedos (es) m pl

Further reading

• pince-nez on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛ̃s.ne/

Noun

pince-nez m (plural pince-nez)

1. (dated, literary) pince-nez
2. noseclip

Descendants

• → Russian: пенсне́ n (pensnɛ́)

Further reading

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