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Monocle

//ˈmɑnəkəl// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A single lens, usually in a wire frame, and used to correct vision for only one eye.
  2. 2
    lens for correcting defective vision in one eye; held in place by facial muscles wordnet
  3. 3
    A one-eyed animal. obsolete

Etymology

1886, borrowed from French monocle, from Late Latin monoculus (“one-eyed”), from mono- (“single”) + oculus (“eye”).

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