Etymology

lorgnette

lor·gnette
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Today it means: An opera glass with a handle. Full definition →

French lorgnette ← Middle French lorgne
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The story

  1. Middle French · derived fromlorgne“crosseyed”
  2. French · borrowed fromlorgnette
  3. English todaylorgnette

Borrowed from French lorgnette, from lorgner (“to take a sidelong look at”) (from Middle French lorgne (“crosseyed”)).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.