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Spectacle for a Cyclops?
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monocle
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Aristocratic with the ridiculous monocle they all affected, and a coldness behind the smile that could chill your heart. ▪ Every morning the monocle is hung round my neck and remains there until bedtime. ▪ He lit a fresh cigarette, ...
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Monocle was an American satirical magazine, published irregularly from the late 1950s until the mid-sixties. Victor Navasky co-founded the magazine while he was at Yale Law School and served as its first editor. From 1961 to 1965, it was edited by C.D.B. ...
Usage examples of monocle.
A gold-rimmed monocle customarily hung on a black silk ribbon around his neck, and a silk foulard square perpetually drooped from his breast pocket.
Wyman took a Palm Pilot out of the desk drawer, turned it on, screwed the monocle into his right eye, tapped the screen with the stylus, and peered.
Wyman squinted at the screen again then let the monocle fall onto his vest.
Wyman lifted his monocle and examined it, exhaled on the lens, used his silk pocket square as a polishing cloth, then let the instrument fall back onto his lapelled vest.
Wyman plugged the monocle into his right eye and studied the picture intently.
Model was for a moment so lost in his own thoughts that his monocle threatened to slip from his right eye.
To give him time to master his temper, he plucked his monocle from his eye and began polishing the lens with a silk handkerchief.
He replaced the monocle, started to jam the handkerchief back into his trouser pocket, then suddenly had a better idea.
A strong, ultrathin wire ran from a corner of the monocle to the battery pack clipped to the underside of his collar.
Follingston-Heath fiddled with his monocle while Iranaputra looked around wildly.
I le fiddled with the settings of his monocle, though there was no reason to do so.
Ramrod straight in his seat, immaculate in sharply creased morning casuals, monocle glinting in the mountain sunshine, Follingston-Heath wiped seared flounder flakes from his lower lip and eyed his friend questioningly.
Follingston-Heath adjusted his monocle and leaned back against a speckled black and gray monolith.
With great ceremony Heath removed his old monocle from a pocket and inserted it carefully in his left eye.
Fergus Appleton is a fine-looking guy of maybe forty, with iron-gray hair that makes him appear very romantic, and he is always well dressed in spats and one thing and another, and he smokes cigarettes in a holder nearly a foot long, and wears a watch on one wrist and a slave bracelet on the other, and a big ring on each hand, and sometimes a monocle in one eye, although Ambrose Hammer claims that this is strictly the old ackamarackuss.