pince-nez in English

noun
1
a pair of eyeglasses with a nose clip instead of earpieces.
The woman looks barely older than a sixth-former, with her hair styled sharply over to one side and a pair of pince-nez perched on her nose.

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1. His generous nose supported pince-nez glasses.

2. His secretary was a tall woman in pince-nez.

3. He wore pince-nez spectacles, a round-ended stiff collar, and a moustache.

4. O'Galop's logo was based on bicycle tires, wore pince-nez glasses with lanyard, and smoked a cigar.

5. The silver pince-nez gave him the air of a rather unpleasant schoolmaster.

6. Small, thin, birdlike, she wore a pair of pince-nez on her Beaky nose

7. He had a neatly trimmed white beard and used a pince-nez for reading. Sentencedict.com

8. Her small silver-rimmed pince-nez only left her nose when she went to bed.

9. "Rubbish, " said one of the clerks, a thin elderly man in pince-nez, "nobody will volunteer.

10. Mr. Pierce knocked the pince-nez from his nose, and turning to Eugene with an air of agreeable confidence, said.

11. Sunlight reflected from the snow outside flashed off his rimless pince-nez perched on the bridge of his strong nose.

12. 28 Mr Corcoran had stared stonily at him through the pince-nez fastened on to his thin beak of a nose.

13. She was a big fat woman with a gold pince-nez and red cheeks like the cheeks of an apple.

14. He cleared his throat and put on his pince-nez as though he had to make sure he was not mistaken.

15. Since they are held in place by a spring that pinches the nose, pince-nez may not be as comfortable as ordinary eyeglasses.

16. A curious but telling detail about the Bikinied Medusa is her artificially gold hair: "an old/ Robot pince-nez and hair dyed gold." In the only other instance of gold so far in the sequence, in "Where the Slow Fig's Purple Sloth": The air Is motionless, and the fig, Motionless in that imperial and blunt Languor of glut, swells, and inward The fibers relax like a sigh in that Hot darkness, go