Definitions
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- adjective wearing a
monocle
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass
Etymologies
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Examples
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At one time, I suppose, Duncan would have called his monocled captain out.
The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912
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By contrast, LulzSec, whose website plays the theme from Love Boat and has a monocled cartoon bon viveur as its avatar, is more flamboyant.
Hackers' childish squabble that ended in a raid by Scotland Yard 2011
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Here we discover Gypsies with "eyes like shrewd blackberries," monocled town officials, a Hungarian timber baron and Angéla, "a darting luminous phantom in these pages" with whom Paddy fell in love.
So No More He'll Go A-Roving David Mason 2011
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Your “Englische sind Inselaffen und dick” - the Brits are thick apes on a small island, is an insult hard enough to bear from a monocled Prussian in a spike tipped helmet.
“Ruralshire Constabulary to get TASER on the front line” « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Here we discover Gypsies with "eyes like shrewd blackberries," monocled town officials, a Hungarian timber baron and Angéla, "a darting luminous phantom in these pages" with whom Paddy fell in love.
So No More He'll Go A-Roving David Mason 2011
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By contrast, LulzSec, whose website plays the theme from Love Boat and has a monocled cartoon bon viveur as its avatar, is more flamboyant.
Hackers' childish squabble that ended in a raid by Scotland Yard 2011
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Half veil, monocled tags kanye west meme livejournal via ljapp
Half veil, monocled frankwu 2008
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In other words, she's proper enough to handle an apartment that until recently belonged to the 101-year-old Buckhantz, cousin to the monocled oil magnate Nubar Gulbenkian (pictured).
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In other words, she's proper enough to handle an apartment that until recently belonged to the 101-year-old Buckhantz, cousin to the monocled oil magnate Nubar Gulbenkian (pictured).
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The Mary Tyler Moore smile aside, Ségolène Royal has a crisp, distant hauteur that she may have inherited from her father, a monocled disciplinarian and French army lieutenant colonel whose brothers were Petainistes.
The Royal Oui? 2007
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