"lorgnette" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /lɒɹnjɛt/ Forms: lorgnettes [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛt Etymology: Borrowed from French lorgnette, from lorgner (“to take a sidelong look at”) (from Middle French lorgne (“crosseyed”)). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|lorgnette}} French lorgnette, {{der|en|frm|lorgne||crosseyed}} Middle French lorgne (“crosseyed”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} lorgnette (plural lorgnettes)
  1. An opera glass with a handle. Synonyms: lorgnon [archaic] Translations (opera glass with a handle): лорнет (lornet) [masculine] (Bulgarian), toneelkijker [masculine] (Dutch), binocle [feminine] (Dutch), lorgnet [feminine, neuter, uncommon] (Dutch), lornetti (Finnish), binocle [masculine] (French), lorgnette [feminine] (French), lorgnon [masculine] (French), ლორნეტი (lorneṭi) (Georgian), Lorgnon [neuter] (German), Lorgnette [feminine] (German), κιάλι (kiáli) [neuter] (Greek), lornyon (Hungarian), lornyett (Hungarian), lorneto (Ido), binoklo (Ido), manu-binoklo (Ido), bilorneto (Ido), fassamano [masculine] (Italian), occhialetto [masculine] (Italian), occhialino [masculine] (Italian), lorgnon [masculine] (Polish), lornion [masculine] (Polish), лорне́т (lornét) [masculine] (Russian), ло̀рњет [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), ло̀рњо̄н [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), lòrnjet [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), lòrnjōn [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-lorgnette-en-noun-T~OWnFqB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Ido translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 90 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 71 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 77 23 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 71 29 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 78 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Georgian translations: 68 32 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 79 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 73 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 67 33 Disambiguation of Terms with Ido translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 84 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 61 39 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 84 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 72 28 Disambiguation of 'opera glass with a handle': 99 1
  2. Elaborate double eyeglasses.
    Sense id: en-lorgnette-en-noun-84l6ZktT
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Coordinate_terms: longue-vue

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.