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Pince-nez

noun
1.
Spectacles clipped to the nose by a spring.





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"Pince-nez" Quotes from Famous Books



... the old gentleman to fold up his paper, and look benignly at the young people over his pince-nez. ...
— Ideala • Sarah Grand
... had the speech. A secretary, who had once been Lady Moyne's governess and still wore pince-nez, brought a quantity of type-written matter into the drawing-room. Moyne wanted me to slip away with him to the billiard room; but I refused to do so. I wanted to watch Lady Moyne making her speech. I am glad that I resisted his appeal. Lady Moyne not only read us the speech. She ...
— The Red Hand of Ulster • George A. Birmingham
... turning toward Mr. Ffrench, who had put on his pince-nez to contemplate his nephew in stupefaction, not at his statement, but at ...
— The Flying Mercury • Eleanor M. Ingram
... delight....'" she declaimed, then her eye met William's. The eyes beneath her pince-nez were like ...
— More William • Richmal Crompton
... on couch. Doctor Oestermark comes in from the orchard; he discovers the Misses Hall and looks at them through his pince-nez.] ...
— Plays: Comrades; Facing Death; Pariah; Easter • August Strindberg
... lady M." (Here I quote Miss Dolly) sent for me the other day. I have not the honor of knowing the Countess, and I went in some trepidation. When I was ushered in, Lady Mickleham put up her "starers." (You know those abominations! Pince-nez with ...
— Dolly Dialogues • Anthony Hope
... her to his office and begged her to be seated. "Repose all confidence in me, Madam," he said, "for I am not without experience in husbands. Good fellows on the whole, with their gladstone bags and their pince-nez and their unmistakable respectability. But somehow they have not acquired the knack of arriving when they are expected. Yours is the seventh who has failed us by this train. True, the other six were coming from Liverpool, whereas the 6.30 ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914 • Various


Words linked to "Pince-nez" :   glasses, spectacles, eyeglasses, specs


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