pince-nez
Example Sentences
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Gamache does not solve crimes by adjusting his pince-nez and issuing a deduction.
From Seattle Times
He showed me some pince-nez reading glasses that Guinness has gotten for him, which make him look even more like an 18th-century European count.
From New York Times
Improbably bedecked in a bow tie, pince-nez glasses and a mailman’s hat, he held a pickle like a cigar and cracked wise in a voice borrowed from Groucho Marx.
From New York Times
The first is the discovery by a timorous and eminently respectable architect of the nude body of a murdered man, neatly disposed in his bathtub, decorated with a pair of gold-rimmed pince-nez.
From New York Times
His rumpled fedora; his jaunty cigarette holder; his pince-nez glasses; his Naval cape; and the steel leg braces that let him stand and appear to walk on his own.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
