lorgnonn.
/ˈlɔːnj(ə)n/, /ˈlɔːnjɒ̃/, /lɔːˈnjɒ̃/, U.S. /lɔrnˈjɔn/Thesaurus »
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a. A single or double eye-glass; a lorgnette.
b. An opera-glass.
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1846 E. B. Barrett Let. 22 Jan. in Lett. R. Browning & E. B. Barrett (1899) I. 422 On the glass of his own opera-lorgnon.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxix. 249 The General..took up his opera-glass—the double-barrelled lorgnon was not invented in those days.
1898 Cent. Mag. Jan. 333/2 Several times the lorgnons of the house had veered around.
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