Definition of "loupe" []

• A small magnifying glass usually set in an eyepiece and used chiefly by watchmakers and jewelers. (noun)

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• "Aside from the technical gear, average shoppers can snag a swan-shaped velvet ring box ($2) or jewelry soap ($3.95), or get a close look at their own gems with the jeweler's monocle known as a loupe ($20 to more than $100)."
• "“That good?” he asked, putting down the photographer’s proofs of turkeys—Matt was on the Butterball campaign—that he was studying with a little magnifying glass called a loupe."
• "Continuing to cruife at the entrance of the Channel, on the 31ft of Oflober he took a French (hip from Guada - loupe, which is faid by fome to have mounted forty guns, and to have had on board a cargo valued at upwards of one hundred thoufand pounds."