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The Collaborative International Dictionary
loupe

loupe \loupe\ (l[=oo]p), n. Any of a variety of small magnifying glasses, having a magnifying power from 2X to 20X, commonly of 10X, which may be held in the hand, or in some cases held within the eyesocket without the use of a hand. It is commonly used by jewelers and watchmakers.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
loupe

"watchmaker's magnifier," 1909, from French loupe.

Wiktionary
loupe

n. 1 A magnifying glass, usually mounted in an eyepiece, often used by jewellers and watchmakers. 2 A type of short-range binoculars used by surgeons and dentists.

WordNet
loupe

n. small magnifying glass (usually set in an eyepiece) used by jewelers and horologists [syn: jeweler's loupe]

Wikipedia
Loupe

A loupe is a simple, small magnification device used to see small details more closely. Unlike a magnifying glass, a loupe does not have an attached handle, and its focusing lens(es) are contained in an opaque cylinder or cone or fold into an enclosing housing that protects the lenses when not in use. Loupes are also called hand lenses.

Loupe (surname)

Loupe is a locational surname of French origin, which originally meant a person from Loupes or La Loupe in France. The name may refer to:

  • Andrew Loupe (born 1988), American golfer

Usage examples of "loupe".

The slackening of a cheek lets the loupe fall out and bounce off the drum-tight bed, and Pemulis gets it to rebound into his palm without even looking.

And they were big enough to show all those comforting flaws with just a 10x loupe.

Putting it in place was like constructing an eleven-story building underground with a jeweler's loupe.

I felt as if I were on an assembly line, inspecting reality with a jeweler's loupe.

Lyle tucked a jeweler's loupe in one eye and toyed methodically with the brake.

For still finer work, he screwed a jeweler's loupe into his left eye.

He wore a jeweler's loupe on a black ribbon around his neck and spoke with some indefinable Eastern European accent.

Milt slapped aside his brilliant swivel lamp and jerked the jeweler's loupe from his eyes.

And now he stopped before me, the jeweler's loupe cocked atop his forehead like a third eye, his breath a reek of nicotine and whiskey.

The gray-braided supervisor looked up and popped an oversized jeweler's loupe out of his eye.

The Frenchman looked at it, then his eyes lit up and be reached into a pocket, produced a jeweler's loupe, screwed it into his eye.

Next, he fitted a jeweler's loupe to his eye, bending close to the body as he adjusted the objective.

Screwing a jeweler's loupe into his socket, Forester stirred a tray of almost microscopic screws with thin-nosed tweezers.

Centaine place it on the centre of the desk, and the Hindu screwed a jeweller's loupe into his eye before he picked up the stone and held it towards the light from the window.