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    Pince-nez (/ˈpɑːnsneɪ/ or /ˈpɪnsneɪ/, plural form same as singular; French pronunciation: [pɛ̃sˈne]) is a style of glasses, popular in the late 19th and...
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  • Pince (pronounced [ˈpiːntsɛ]; in older sources also Pinica, Hungarian: Pince) is a settlement southeast of Lendava in the Prekmurje region of Slovenia...
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    Pincé (French pronunciation: [pɛ̃se]) is a commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays de la Loire in north-western France. Communes of the...
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    "The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle...
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  • Deadpan (redirect from Pince-sans-rire)
    Deadpan, dry humour, or dry-wit humour is the deliberate display of emotional neutrality or no emotion, commonly as a form of comedic delivery to contrast...
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    Prince Edward Island (PEI; French: Île-du-Prince-Édouard; Scottish Gaelic: Eilean a' Phrionnsa; colloquially known as the Island) is an island province...
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  • Pince–Marof (pronounced [ˈpiːntsɛ ˈmaːɾɔf]; Slovene: Pince-Marof, Hungarian: Pincemajor) is a settlement southeast of Lendava in the Prekmurje region of...
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  • appeared in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, where she played Madame Pince, the librarian of Hogwarts. Mortemore first worked in theatre as an acting...
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  • The following is a list of characters from the Harry Potter series. Each character appears in at least one Harry Potter-related book or story by J. K....
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    242 Pinces & Pinces p. 141 Aveling p. 307 Pinces & Pinces p. 142 Pinces & Pinces p. 144 Boutell p. 243 Aveling p. 308 Willement p. 69 Pinces & Pinces p...
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    and beverages. Borozó usually denotes a cosy old-fashioned wine tavern, pince is a beer or wine cellar and a söröző is a pub offering draught beer and...
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  • L’empereur, sa femme et le p’tit prince Sont venus chez moi, pour me serrer la pince. Comme j’étais parti, Le p’tit prince a dit : « Puisque c’est ainsi, nous...
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    Ozhegov's dictionary adds [нэ́] in brackets to the French loan-word пенсне (pince-nez) to indicate that the final ⟨е⟩ does not iotate the preceding ⟨н⟩. "In...
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    15-16—"A Scandal in Bohemia" Klinger II, p. 1092—"The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez" Klinger I, p. 299—"The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor"—there was no...
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  • The Crab with the Golden Claws (French: Le Crabe aux pinces d'or) is the ninth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist...
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  • cousin, knowledgeable in rare diseases. 38 "The Golden Pince-Nez" "The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez" 21 March 1994 (1994-03-21) Holmes and Mycroft investigate...
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    to require reading glasses. Rimless glasses were first widely offered as pince-nez, with manufacturers arguing that the design was superior to extant eyeglasses...
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    changed over the years. O'Galop's logo was based on bicycle tires, wore pince-nez glasses with lanyard, and smoked a cigar. By the 1960s, Bibendum was...
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    Eyewear Eyeglasses Browline Bug-eye Cat eye GI Goggles Horn-rimmed glasses Pince-nez Lensless Lorgnette Monocle Rimless Sunglasses Aviator Glacier Iggaak...
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    Fortuna, Alabárdos, Arany Szarvas, Gundel and the world-famous Mátyás-pince restaurants and beer bars. There are Roman remains at the Aquincum Museum...
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  • as a verb meaning "to knock out"); "a spare pince-nez'd man" (cited in OED, entry for "pince-nez"; pince-nezed is also in citations). An apostrophe's...
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    Gentleman with a waxed moustache ca. 1910 wearing a Homburg hat and pince nez...
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    they better remembered for their horn-rimmed Groucho glasses and rimless pince nez, respectively.[better source needed] Mahatma Gandhi John Lennon Groucho...
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  • distinctive characteristics include his red-black-yellow clothing, baldness, pince-nez sunglasses, and large mustache. Eggman made a cameo appearance in the...
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    Earth) 2007 – Второй (Second) 2009 – Водопад (Waterfall) 2011 – Пенсне (Pince-nez) 2011 – Берега чистого братства (Bank of pure brotherhood) together...
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  • Nigel Planer as Inspector Stanley Hopkins in "The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez" (1994) Tom Chadbon as Inspector Hawkins in "The Red Circle" and "The...
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    Cat eye Chicken GI Groucho Horn-rimmed Lensless Lorgnette Opera Monocle Pince-nez Pinhole Rimless Scissors Shooting Smart Trifocals Windsor X-ray Sunglasses...
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    mention his abdication. Gustaf V was thin, and known for his height. He wore pince-nez eyeglasses and sported a pointed mustache for most of his teen years...
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  • to stay, generally small and applied to a secondary residence in a city. pince-nez lit. "nose-pincher", a type of spectacles without temple arms. piste...
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    Cat eye Chicken GI Groucho Horn-rimmed Lensless Lorgnette Opera Monocle Pince-nez Pinhole Rimless Scissors Shooting Smart Trifocals Windsor X-ray Sunglasses...
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