What is "lorgnon"

Usage examples of "lorgnon".

Barras adjusted his gold-rimmed lorgnon, examined the document before him.

Dunnkirk cleared his throat again and adjusted the lorgnon in his eye.

Montfanon, whose brows contracted still more at the mention of the celebrated field-marshal, and, stopping by a gesture the reader, who, in his surprise, dropped his lorgnon upon the table on which his elbow rested.

Barras patted the pockets of his waistcoat, withdrew a gold-rimmed lorgnon and pushed it into his eye socket.

He stopped abruptly when he saw me, his gold-rimmed lorgnon falling, swinging on a pink cord, his eyes tender and sad.

Beside her sat a tall handsome woman with a hard mouth, dressed in white linen and a picture hat, who ogled him tentatively through a lorgnon during the moment of introduction before permitting her face to relax into a smile of welcome.

He claims that the police, after his arrest, worked him over for two hours, breaking his lorgnon and repeatedly kicking his rear while he groped helplessly on the floor.

Hilliard considered him through her lorgnon, but the man was busy with the napery and escaped punishment.

Effie wielded their lorgnons upon the later comers, thus giving their table quite an air.

Effie, after a period of futile glaring at her through the lorgnons, seemed to make their resolves simultaneously, and forthwith themselves lighted cigarettes.