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Later on (18th cent.) - "caramella" came to mean lorgnette:
Which gives us Scaramella the quintessentially phony "miles gloriosus" conman-spy... who'd run a mile from a real battle, vastly prefers snooping around in fine kid boots and lace ruffles, especially at gala evenings where he can oogle the ladies through his eyeglass/spyglass? "Ignoring moralities is always undesirable, but doing so systematically is really worrisome." Mohammed Khatami
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