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"etymology_text": "From bi- + focal (see focus), coined in 1824 by John Isaac Hawkins, inventor of trifocals. When the concept of bifocals was originally conceived by Benjamin Franklin, he called them double spectacles.",
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"ref": "2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 116",
"text": "He unfolded a pair of bifocals and thrust them as far up the bridge of his nose as possible.",
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"word": "bifocal"
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"word": "multifocals"
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"word": "trifocals"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "spectacles with two different powers",
"word": "kaksiteholasit"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "spectacles with two different powers",
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"masculine",
"plural"
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"word": "verres bifocaux"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "spectacles with two different powers",
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"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "verres double foyer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "spectacles with two different powers",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Bifokalbrille"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "spectacles with two different powers",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "Zweistärkenbrille"
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{
"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "spectacles with two different powers",
"word": "nákʼee sinilí naakijįʼ bee hootʼínígíí"
}
],
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],
"word": "bifocals"
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"translations": [
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "spectacles with two different powers",
"word": "kaksiteholasit"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "spectacles with two different powers",
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{
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"sense": "spectacles with two different powers",
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"plural"
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"word": "verres double foyer"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "spectacles with two different powers",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Bifokalbrille"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "spectacles with two different powers",
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"word": "Zweistärkenbrille"
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{
"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "spectacles with two different powers",
"word": "nákʼee sinilí naakijįʼ bee hootʼínígíí"
}
],
"word": "bifocals"
}
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