单词 | pince-nez |
释义 | pince-nezn. A pair of spectacles kept in position by a spring which clips the nose, rather than by earpieces. Cf. nose glasses n. at nose n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > [noun] > spectacles > pince-nez bridge spectacles1830 pince-nez1866 nippers1876 nose glasses1890 nose-nippers1895 nose pinch1896 1866 Times 5 Mar. 10/2 Across his long nose he habitually wears a tortoiseshell pince-nez. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 3 Feb. (1956) VI. 220 Our young Charles..was slightly short-sighted and used only occasionally a pince-nez. 1888 J. Payn Myst. Mirbridge vii The lady, putting up her pince-nez, with a show of interest. 1904 J. Joyce Let. 28 Dec. (1966) II. 75 I shall go to an oculist..to get pincenez glasses. 1927 F. B. Young Portrait of Clare 26 She brushed the dust from her skirt..her grey eyes swimming behind the lenses of her pincenez. 1941 Punch 13 Aug. 148/2 There was a frail creature in pince-nez at the other end of the table. 1974 Oxf. Junior Encycl. (rev. ed.) XI. 422/2 The portrait of Cardinal Ugone in the church of San Nicolo at Treviso shows spectacles in which the two lenses are held together by a joint or hinge which fitted on the nose (an early form of pince-nez). 1989 V. S. Pritchett Chekhov xii. 163 Behind the glasses of his pince-nez his eyes were narrower. Derivatives pince-ˈnezed adj. (also pince-nez'd) wearing a pince-nez. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > [adjective] > wearing spectacles > wearing pince-nez pince-nezed1919 1919 J. C. Snaith Love Lane xi. 51 An important, pince-nezed gentleman. 1958 B. Hamilton Too Much of Water i. 18 A spare pince-nez'd man with sandy-red hair. 1995 Times 7 Dec. 18/3 The pince-nezed peer claims he managed to get the Transport Secretary..reinstated to the Government. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1866 |
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