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Monocle
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
Example Sentences
- Clad in a well-cut suit, white spats and the inevitable monocle dangling from his neck.
- He wore impeccably tailored tweed suits and sometimes a monocle.
- When some guy with a monocle burst through the back door.
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Word Origin & History
monocle
1886, "single eyeglass," from Fr. monocle, from L.L. monoculus "one-eyed," from Gk. monos "single, alone" + L. oculus "eye" (see eye).
EXPAND"That this, a hybrid, a Gallicism, and a word with no obvious meaning to the Englishman who hears it for the first time, should have ousted the entirely satisfactory eyeglass is a melancholy illustration of the popular taste in language." [Fowler]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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