lorgner

Prenez vos lorgnons.
Might want your spectacles.
Sous les yeux, on peut voir, pliée, comme reposant sur le nez, une bande claire rappelant des lorgnons, à la mode en 1801 quand Bloch & Schneider décrivirent l’espèce. Ethologie-Biologie de la reproduction
Under the eyes we note, folded as it were resting on a nose, a pale band which recalls the frames of the pince-nez, fashionable in 1801 when Bloch & Schneider described the species.
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