pince-nez

pince-nez

English

pince-nez

Etymology

Borrowed from French pince-nez (literally “pinch-nose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pænsˈneɪ/, /pæ̃sˈneɪ/

• Audio (UK)

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Noun

pince-nez (plural pince-nez)

1. temple-less eyeglasses that clip to the bridge of the nose
   • 1919, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 15, in A Damsel in Distress:

     Lord Belpher, leaning against the wall and trying to decide whether his right or left foot hurt him the more excruciatingly, became aware that a curate was standing before him, regarding him through a pair of gold-rimmed pince-nez with a disapproving and hostile expression.

   • Furst, Alan 2000 Kingdom of Shadows, p170:

     Shabet took a pince-nez from his breast pocket and settled it on the bridge of his nose.

Synonyms

• Oxford glasses

Translations

type of eyeglasses

Armenian: պենսնե (hy) (pensne) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: пенснэ́ n (pjensné), пэнснэ́ n (pensné) Bulgarian: пенсне́ n (pensné) Catalan: pinçanàs m pl Chinese: Mandarin: 夾鼻眼鏡／夹鼻眼镜 (jiābíyǎnjìng) Czech: skřipec (cs) m, cvikr m Danish: pincenez c Dutch: knijpbril (nl), pince-nez (nl) m Esperanto: nazumo (eo) Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: nenälasit pl, pinnelasit pl French: pince-nez (fr) m, lorgnon (fr) m Georgian: პენსნე (ṗensne) German: Zwicker (de) m, Klemmer (de) m, Kneifer (de) m, Pincenez (de) n (dated) Greek: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: csiptető (hu), orrcsiptető, cvikker (hu) (dated) Hunsrik: please add this translation if you can Ido: binoklo (io), naz-binoklo Italian: lenti a molla m pl, pince-nez m Japanese: 鼻メガネ (はなめがね, hanamegane), 鼻眼鏡 (はなめがね, hanamegane) Khmer: please add this translation if you can Korean: 코안경 (koan'gyeong) Lao: please add this translation if you can Latvian: pensnejs m Lithuanian: pensnė f Macedonian: please add this translation if you can Polish: binokle (pl) m pl, cwikier (pl) m Portuguese: pincenê (pt) m, pince-nez (pt) m Romagnol: please add this translation if you can Romanian: pince-nez (ro) n Russian: пенсне́ (ru) n (pensnɛ́) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: цвѝкер m Roman: cvìker (sh) m Slovak: škripec (sk) m Slovene: ščipalnik m Spanish: quevedos (es) m pl Swedish: pincené (sv) c Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: pins-nez Ukrainian: пенсне́ (uk) n (pensné), цві́кер (uk) m (cvíker) Uzbek: pensne Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can Yiddish: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• pince-nez on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛ̃s.ne/

• Audio

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Noun

pince-nez m (plural pince-nez)

1. (dated, literary) pince-nez
2. noseclip

Descendants

• → Catalan: pinçanàs (calque)
• → Russian: пенсне́ n (pensnɛ́)
• → Swedish: pincené c

Further reading

• “pince-nez”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French pince-nez.

Noun

pince-nez n (plural pince-nez-uri)

1. pince-nez

Declension

Declension of pince-nez

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) pince-nez	pince-nezul	(niște) pince-nez-uri	pince-nez-urile
genitive/dative	(unui) pince-nez	pince-nezului	(unor) pince-nez-uri	pince-nez-urilor
vocative	pince-nezule		pince-nez-urilor