[Fr.] a. A single or double eye-glass; a lorgnette. b. An opera-glass.
1846. Mrs. Browning, Lett. (1899), I. 422. On the glass of his own opera-lorgnon.
1848. Thackeray, Van. Fair, xxix. The General … took up his Opera-glass—the double-barrelled lorgnon was not invented in those days.
1898. Mrs. Burton Harrison, in Century Mag., Jan., 333/2. Several times the lorgnons of the house had veered around to center upon the group.
