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- noun Plural form of
lorgnette .
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Examples
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As in other social cities, the opera was the place to see and be seen, and throughout the evening, the Four Hundred turned their lorgnettes to the boxes opposite and paid visits.
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If you have trouble reading the dinner menu, lorgnettes are a fashionable and elegant alternative to reading glasses.
Ari Cohen: The Top 10 Ways to Stay Stylish and Look Great at 98 Ari Cohen 2011
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If you have trouble reading the dinner menu, lorgnettes are a fashionable and elegant alternative to reading glasses.
Ari Cohen: The Top 10 Ways to Stay Stylish and Look Great at 98 Ari Cohen 2011
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If you have trouble reading the dinner menu, lorgnettes are a fashionable and elegant alternative to reading glasses.
Ari Cohen: The Top 10 Ways to Stay Stylish and Look Great at 98 Ari Cohen 2011
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If you have trouble reading the dinner menu, lorgnettes are a fashionable and elegant alternative to reading glasses.
Ari Cohen: The Top 10 Ways to Stay Stylish and Look Great at 98 Ari Cohen 2011
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You can almost picture Megan McArdle and Alison Schrager glowering as these working Americans mow their lawns and mop their floors, looking down on them through golden lorgnettes perched on noses wrinkled in disapproval.
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Opera patrons look through their lorgnettes at a werewolf coming in from the rain and shaking
Werewolf New Yorker Cartoons Kevin Maher 2009
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Looking back on the scene, the baronet's daughter could still picture this group of elderly ladies, "quite contented like plump hens in cubby holes, sitting in dim solitude ... with lorgnettes fixed at the dripping parade."
'Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age' 2009
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Opera patrons look through their lorgnettes at a werewolf coming in from the rain and shaking
Archive 2009-09-01 Kevin Maher 2009
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In midtown, Hollywood grande dame Glenn Close is recognized for her contributions to the arts (lorgnettes! boiled bunnies!) at the Princess Grace Awards Gala at Cipriani.
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