Definitions for lorgnon

lorgnon lor·gnon

Spelling: [French lawr-nyawn]
IPA: /French lɔrˈnyɔ̃/

Lorgnon is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in lorgnon (glnnoor).

Definitions for lorgnon

noun

  1. an eyeglass or a pair of eyeglasses.
  2. opera glasses.

Origin of lorgnon

1840-50; French, equivalent to lorgn(er) (see lorgnette) + -on noun suffix

Examples for lorgnon

Mrs Clayton Vernon had a lorgnon at the end of a shaft of tortoise-shell; otherwise, a pair of eye-glasses on a stick.

When the child once saw her uncle with a lorgnon around his neck she said, Cest le bon Dieu de mon oncle.

"Well, you're a pretty girl," said Madame Beattie, dropping her lorgnon.

Mrs. Gueste looked through her lorgnon at the glinting speck traveling out on the water.

Inside a lady was sitting, and she looked at me through a lorgnon.

"I shall tell her, of course," said Mrs. Tresslyn, and lifted her lorgnon.

Her lorgnon seemed to follow his every expression like a searchlight.

Valencia Valletort's luminous eyes had gleamed that night under their lashes, and pierced through the lenses of his lorgnon.

For an instant they wavered, for Caterina had sprung upon the float and was gazing at them through her lorgnon.

She was reading a letter, holding her lorgnon up to her painted eyes.

Word Value for lorgnon
Scrable

8

Words with friends

12

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