A lorgnette is a pair of glasses with a handle, historically used by ladies to see inconspicuously. The lorgnette would be most notably recognized as the glasses women used at the opera or theatre. There are multiple types of lorgnettes, including a type of fan where the lenses through which one sees are hidden; the tool is used to observe others secretly. Lorgnette comes from the French word lorgnette, which is from lorgner. Between Wikipedia and Etymonline, we find mixed meanings of lorgner. According to the former, lorgner means “to take a sidelong look at” but sources also point toward the actual meaning being “a ship captain’s (monocular) telescope.” The latter source tells us that lorgner is “to squint,” also “to leer at, ogle”. (The origin of the word is uncertain, perhaps Germanic.) My Webster’s New World French Dictionary defines lorgner as “to eye; to have one’s eye on.”

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