binocle

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noun

A kind of double-barrelled field glass or opera glass.

OriginFrench binocle ← Latin bi- →
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Meanings

nounbinocle (plural binocles)

plural binocles

  1. archaicA kind of double-barrelled field glass or opera glass.
    1 more example

    Anna did not look at her husband; but, taking her glass, she gazed at the place where Vronsky had fallen. It was so distant, and the crowd was so dense, that she could not make anything out of it. She dropped her binocle, and started to go; but at that instant an officer came galloping up to make some report to the emperor. Anna leaned forward, and listened.

    1899, Lyof Tolstoi, “Part Two/Chapter 29”, in Nathan Haskell Dole, transl., Anna Karenina

Origin

  1. Latinbi-“two”
  2. Frenchbinocle
  3. Englishbinocle

From French binocle, from Latin bi- (“two”) + oculus (“eye”).

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Chicago

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