[Tex/LaTex] symbol for a magnifying glass

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I'm interested in including a magnifying glass (like 🔍) in a tex document which has to be compilable with pdfLaTeX. I looked into The Comprehensive Latex Symbol List but I didn't find any suitable symbol. How can this be done?

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The fontawesome package has a command \faSearch, and the bclogo package a \bcloupe:

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