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binocles

binocles is the plural of binocle.

Meaning of binocle

Noun

binocle (plural binocles)

  1. (archaic) A kind of double-barrelled field glass or opera glass.
    • Anna did not look at her husband; but, taking her glass, she gazed at the place where Vronsky had fallen. It was so distant, and the crowd was so dense, that she could not make anything out of it. She dropped her binocle, and started to go; but at that instant an officer came galloping up to make...1899, Lyof Tolstoi, “Part Two/Chapter 29”, in Nathan Haskell Dole, transl., Anna Karenina

Questions about binocles

What is binocles the plural of?
Binocles is the plural of binocle.

Words near binocles in the dictionary

  1. bino
  2. binocellate
  3. binocellate cobra
  4. binocellate cobras
  5. binocle
  6. binocles
  7. binocles-ciseaux
  8. binocs
  9. binocular
  10. binocular O
  11. binocular Os

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