‖ lorgnon
(lɔrɲɔ̃)
[Fr.]
a. A single or double eye-glass; a lorgnette. b. An opera-glass.
| 1846 Mrs. Browning Lett. (1899) I. 422 On the glass of his own opera-lorgnon. 1848 Thackeray Van. Fair xxix, The General..took up his Opera-glass—the double-barrelled lorgnon was not invented in those days. 1898 Century Mag. Jan. 333/2 Several times the lorgnons of the house had veered around. |