Definitions for lorgnette

lorgnette lor·gnette

Spelling: [lawrn-yet]
IPA: /lɔrnˈyɛt/

Lorgnette is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 267 anagrams from letters in lorgnette (eeglnortt).

Definitions for lorgnette

noun

  1. a pair of eyeglasses mounted on a handle.
  2. a pair of opera glasses mounted on a handle.

Origin of lorgnette

1795-1805; French, derivative of lorgner to eye furtively; see -ette

Examples for lorgnette

From the moment when they entered their box every lorgnette was fixed upon them.

Mrs. Evringham put up her lorgnette as she greeted the child.

The lorgnette in use is shown in the photograph, "Playing lady."

My brother and I invented a lorgnette, and the young men have taken it from us.'

In the morning, when I awake, I sit by my window and direct my lorgnette at her balcony.

"You, Priscilla, are rooming with—" She adjusted her lorgnette and consulted a large chart.

The Calabrian raised what she considered her most deadly weapon, her lorgnette.

The lady took down her lorgnette and raised an appealing face.

Most of them are fairly hostile to genius or look at it with a lorgnette.

Its lorgnette eyes, like those of a lobster, were quite independent of each other.

Word Value for lorgnette
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Words with friends

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