longue-vue

noun

A ship's navigational monocular spyglass telescope

Meanings

nounlongue-vue (plural longue-vues)

plural longue-vues

  1. nauticalA ship's navigational monocular spyglass telescope

Origin

  1. Frenchlongue-vue
  2. Englishlongue-vue

From French longue-vue; Literally, “long view”. From longue (“long”) + vue (“view”).

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Chicago

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