How To Use Lorgnette In A Sentence
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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.
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As they spoke, their father observed them from the staircase, holding a lorgnette.
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From these chains were suspended watches or lorgnettes, as well as lockets and other useful implements.
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The spring is a little loose when the lorgnette is open.
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The well-to-do stared through their lorgnettes in delight at quaintly dressed fisherfolk and their families.
Times, Sunday Times
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She looked up from her glossy magazine, put down her lorgnette and eyed him unenthusiastically as he entered.
THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
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At one point, we see her flitting from window to window, peeking through her lorgnettes at the humdrum of street life below.
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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.
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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
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She lifted her gold lorgnette and looked Emily well over.
Emily Fox-Seton
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Lalique's flora and fauna are everywhere—nude feminine figures with insect wings on a necklace, a lizard lorgnette, an ivy and clover hatpin, swans here, wheat sheaves there, a pair of white peacocks with multicolor tails standing on a heart-shaped citrine.
A Display of Lalique's Beauty
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Some of the more desirable lorgnettes had detailed, very artistic engraving and long handles.
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The Emperor, surrounded by his suite of officers and courtiers, was riding a bobtailed chestnut mare, a different one from that which he had ridden at the review, and bending to one side he gracefully held a gold lorgnette to his eyes and looked at a soldier who lay prone, with blood on his uncovered head.
War and Peace
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Now when I think of the New Willard, I see frumpily dressed dowagers talking through their lorgnettes to moth-eaten senators.
Vignettes of San Francisco
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Well, I do not have my lorgnette on me, but I will try anyway.
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Lalique's flora and fauna are everywhere—nude feminine figures with insect wings on a necklace, a lizard lorgnette, an ivy and clover hatpin, swans here, wheat sheaves there, a pair of white peacocks with multicolor tails standing on a heart-shaped citrine.
A Display of Lalique's Beauty
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The woman raised a lorgnette and appraised the muddied rugby shirt with pursed lips.
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We have monocles, lorgnettes, opera glasses and other vision aids for all your needs.
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The weight of the lorgnettes is 24.7 grams.
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This pair of fold away lorgnettes are strung with a dyed coral dragon carving, fluorite beads and small glass beads.
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Beginning in the 1890s fashionable ladies wore lorgnettes on elegant occasions.
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She does not look at people, she regards them, as though quizzing them at a ball through a pair of lorgnettes.
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“The funny mistress of five or six accents,” Jane regaled them all with the story of her dinner party, successively taking the part of a lecherous old Oxonian who was trying to pinch her bottom, a drunk Ceylonese official, and a dry old colonial widow with a lorgnette.
A Covert Affair
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In the eighteenth century lorgnettes and quizzing glasses became elegant accessories of upper-class dress and fashion began to influence design.
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The lorgnette, of course, comes complete with extra powers of magnification to enhance the user's acuity to view a map, read a small number or menu under less than adequate conditions.
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Beginning in the 1890s fashionable ladies wore lorgnettes on elegant occasions.
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Positioned hierarchically above the crowd like a god, King Leopold looks through a lorgnette but seems not to notice the violence below.
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If a certain American countess had not patronized her; if certain lorgnettes (implements of torture used by said son of Satan) had not been leveled in her direction; if certain fans had not been suggestively spread between pairs of feminine heads, -- Nora would have been as harmless as a playful kitten.
The Place of Honeymoons
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Aside from full-frame styles, they're also available in rimless styles, topless styles and lorgnettes.
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Short-sighted, when she lifts her lorgnettes to her eyes, her gaze becomes profound and inquisitive, and her interlocutor feels pierced to the very depths of his soul.
DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
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Some double lens lorgnettes are hinged between the lenses and fold out to a single plane when in use.
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Peering severely through her lorgnette at Everson she said ‘I'm afraid Colonel Everson that even men your age are in need of constant house-training‘.
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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 marque type
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