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UK
/mˈɒnəʊkəl/
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[ US /ˈmɑnəkəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈmɑnəkəɫ/ ]
NOUN
- lens for correcting defective vision in one eye; held in place by facial muscles
How To Use monocle In A Sentence
- Players must wear at least two additional accessories along with their regular uniform, options include top hats, monocles, scarves, berets, tool belts, leather jackets, and spurs.
- There is, finally, a particular resonance about that unclassifiable species of Wodehouse heroine who wears a monocle and sees courtship primarily as a series of knightly tests to be accomplished by her betrothed.
- It took a truly evil grin to scrunch up my face muscles enough to keep the monocle in place.
- And Franz looked at me, peered at me through his monocle, and said, ‘Very well.’
- The tuft of his grey hair, his eye, the brow of which was raised by his monocle to emit a smile, the red flowers in his buttonhole formed, so to speak, the three mobile apices of a convulsive and striking triangle. The Guermantes Way
- I noticed that his face had turned red and he disguised it by taking off his monocle and cleaning off imaginary dust from it.
- People were wearing, not just pince-nez, but monocles.
- At the age of 16 he began wearing a monocle, an unusual step for a young man even in 1939, after an oculist told him his right eye was weaker than his left eye.
- Martin Russell Crowe, professorial, mustachioed, monocled, wedding ring, looking up from an old volume of Hölderlin, pulling up his lederhosen: You have lost your "disquiet," which means you have found the way to your innermost, purest feminine essence. Philocrites: Martin & Hannah: The movie!
- Don't forget your monocle and porcelain dinnerware! The Secret of Eating Chicken Wings » E-Mail