opera glasses
a small, low-power pair of binoculars for use at plays, concerts, and the like.
Origin of opera glasses
1- Often opera glass .
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How to use opera glasses in a sentence
A débutante destined to a higher kind of success, Ada Cavendish, regaled the opera-glasses with the sight of her beauty as Venus.
The English Stage | Augustin FilonHe could see opera-glasses levelled on her from the boxes overhead, and over the edge of the dress circle.
Flaming June | Mrs. George de Horne VaizeyThen she took up an object which looked like (and indeed was) the half of a pair of opera-glasses with the glass taken out.
Quicksilver Sue | Laura Elizabeth Howe RichardsReasoning thus, Richard raised his opera glasses and swept those many superimposed ranges of waxen cells.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady | Lucas MaletThe colored images that are sometimes seen in cheap opera glasses show the result of not using achromatic lenses.
Physics | Willis Eugene Tower
British Dictionary definitions for opera glasses
small low-powered binoculars used by audiences in theatres and opera houses
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