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- noun Plural form of
monocle .
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Examples
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I took the job because I wanted to be a fashion editor — not a digger of dirt or, fond as I am of ascots and monocles, a junior detective.
'Ugly Betty' Bites: 18 Betty-ful clips from last night! | EW.com 2009
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The world of Aston Martins and the dry martini is just as remote as the world of Mayfair drones, spats and monocles.
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The bluebloods are so shocked that their metaphorical monocles shatter in horror, and Patrick sees the error of his ways.
My Year of Flops Nathan Rabin 2010
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Just the other day me and the rest of the Left were sipping sherry and peering over our monocles while discussing the best strategies for achieving exactly that!
The Volokh Conspiracy » They Made a Multilateralism and Called It Peace 2009
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Just the other day me and the rest of the Left were sipping sherry and peering over our monocles while discussing the best strategies for achieving exactly that!
The Volokh Conspiracy » They Made a Multilateralism and Called It Peace 2009
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If the advertisers were really thinking, they would bring back watch chains and ruffled collars and shoe buckles and handkerchiefs and gloves and monocles and codpieces and anything else that was ever worn in history.
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It's big and bushy like the ones in sepia-toned pictures of guys wearing monocles and pocket watches, guys riding bicycles with giant front wheels and little bitty back wheels.
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Just the other day me and the rest of the Left were sipping sherry and peering over our monocles while discussing the best strategies for achieving exactly that!
The Volokh Conspiracy » They Made a Multilateralism and Called It Peace 2009
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Other options in the "useless and deliberately 'eccentric' accessories" realm include monocles, canes-without-injuries-which-necessitate-them, and those little hats bike messengers wear.
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If Sheikh Habadan has his way, all the gorgeous Saudi ladies will be reduced to flirting through, what, monocles?
The Eyes Have It: A Single Eyed Niqab? « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009
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