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▪ I. monocle, n.|ˈmɒnək(ə)l|
[a. F. monocle (in OF. as adj. = one-eyed), ad. L. monoculus: see monoculous.]
1. A single eye-glass.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Monocle (French), a reading-glass for one eye. 1886W. J. Tucker E. Europe 46 ‘He has..a glass in his eye’. ‘A binocle or a monocle?’ 1889D. C. Murray Dang. Catspaw xiv. (1890) 247 A great monocle which the old gentleman used for the critical examination of his work lay near at hand. 1894Idler Sept. 175 The young man screwed a monocle into his right eye.
2. = monocule (Cent. Dict. 1890).
▪ II. ˈmonocle, v.
[f. the n.]
trans. To provide with a monocle. So ˈmonocled a.
1922M. B. Houston Witch Man xii. 154 Major Coberton monocled his eye. 1926L. P. Greene Major—Diamond Buyer 18 The monocled one coughed deprecatingly. 1940Horizon Mar. 185 The monocled idiot who made good on the fields of Mons and Le Cateau. 1965Listener 30 Dec. 1063/1 Colonel Creighton, monocled, and seated bolt upright in his rickshaw as though it were a Daimler. 1974Times 26 Apr. 18/6 It is ironical that youth and the new guard should be represented by a 63 year old monocled cavalry officer. |