lorgnette

How To Use lorgnette In A Sentence

• In the days before the Nazi occupation, when Vienna was a leading intellectual and cultural centre in Europe, she was an imposing figure, inscrutable as she peered at her students through her lorgnette.
• As they spoke, their father observed them from the staircase, holding a lorgnette.
• From these chains were suspended watches or lorgnettes, as well as lockets and other useful implements.
• The spring is a little loose when the lorgnette is open.
• The well-to-do stared through their lorgnettes in delight at quaintly dressed fisherfolk and their families. Times, Sunday Times
• She looked up from her glossy magazine, put down her lorgnette and eyed him unenthusiastically as he entered. THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
• At one point, we see her flitting from window to window, peeking through her lorgnettes at the humdrum of street life below.
• She glanced at him and turned pale, then glanced again with horror, unable to believe her eyes, and tightly gripped the fan and the lorgnette in her hands, evidently struggling with herself not to faint.
• AmE lieuténant, BrE lefténant littérateur literatër lorgnette, lorgnon lornyét, lornyón louche loôsh luthier-a maker of stringed instruments such as violins or guitars məshêen madame brothel, Madame title madáme, cf. mádam shopping madeleine mádeleíne mademoiselle madame wàzél maisonette maizonét maître d'hôtel métradô-tél, mâitradô-tél maladroit maladrŏit malcontent malines malêen mandoline (also 'mandolin' in English) mándə-lín margarine marjərìne marmalade - màrmalâde marmite marquee Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• She lifted her gold lorgnette and looked Emily well over. Emily Fox-Seton