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Meanings of wear a monocle in English

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Usage of wear a monocle in English
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We get it, you read novels and wear a monocle.
News.com.au
2
I'll even wear a monocle while accepting your cash, if that would make you feel more secure.
Wired
3
He is one of the few men in this country who can wear a monocle without looking silly.
The new yorker
4
In his left eye, attached to a cord, he wore a monocle.
The Prince and Betty
5
He carries a parlor rifle, and wears a monocle.
The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million
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Firmly fastened in one screwed-up eye he wore a monocle on a wide black ribbon.
Alice in quantumland: an allegory of quantum physics
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He was in evening dress, and wore a monocle; his manner was frigid and rather pretentious.
The Lost Child
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This latter wore a monocle in what Jones afterwards mentally called, "his twisted face."
The Man Who Lost Himself
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By the way, he wears a monocle.
Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
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We had a strange Lieutenant one trip who came from a depot ship at Southampton and wore a monocle.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 26, 1919
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Have a look at the pictures: deep inside the bunker someone is stroking a white cat and wearing a monocle.
The Guardian
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He wears a monocle over one staring and apparently sightless eye, and stalks along mechanically, glancing neither to right nor left.
The new yorker
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"He'll probably carry a cane and wear a monocle."
Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School / The Merry Doings of ...
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On the way he spotted the poet Joaquín Ramos on the corner, wearing a monocle and pulling along the goat he called his gazelle.
Who killed palomino molero?
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For the same reasons he wore a monocle; not because the vision of his right eye was defective but because no clergyman wears a monocle.
If Winter Comes
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