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be-monocled

be-monocled is the alternative form of bemonocled.

Meaning of bemonocled

Adjective

bemonocled (not comparable)

  1. Synonym of monocled.
    • One day in June a foreign tourist, bemonocled and beleggined, made application at the door of my “doby” for shelter from an impending storm which was already darkening the western sky.1896 April 22, “An Inventor Who Got Rich”, in The Journal and Review, volume XXVI, Aiken, S.C., column 1
    Synonyms:
    monocled

Questions about be-monocled

What is be-monocled the alternative form of?
Be-monocled is the alternative form of bemonocled.

Words near be-monocled in the dictionary

  1. be-helmeted
  2. be-in
  3. be-ins
  4. be-leggined
  5. be-legginged
  6. be-monocled
  7. be-moustached
  8. be-mustached
  9. be-on-the-lookout
  10. be-pantied
  11. be-pantsed

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