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  • noun Plural form of spectacle.
  • noun formal A pair of lenses set in a frame worn on the nose and ears in order to correct deficiencies in eyesight or to ornament the face.

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  • noun optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision

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Examples

  • Mrs. Heffley, enigmatic behind the twin zeroes of her spectacles, is a shrewd dispenser of domestic justice, while Mr. H (a Civil War nut) tends to do his parenting in lunges of impetuous dad-ness.

    Revenge of the Wimps 2010

  • Mrs. Heffley, enigmatic behind the twin zeroes of her spectacles, is a shrewd dispenser of domestic justice, while Mr. H (a Civil War nut) tends to do his parenting in lunges of impetuous dad-ness.

    Revenge of the Wimps 2010

  • • Finally, what about the ne'er-do-well who grabbed the spectacles from the face of uber novelist Jonathan Franzen?

    Diary Hugh Muir 2010

  • Mrs. Heffley, enigmatic behind the twin zeroes of her spectacles, is a shrewd dispenser of domestic justice, while Mr. H (a Civil War nut) tends to do his parenting in lunges of impetuous dad-ness.

    Revenge of the Wimps 2010

  • Mrs. Heffley, enigmatic behind the twin zeroes of her spectacles, is a shrewd dispenser of domestic justice, while Mr. H (a Civil War nut) tends to do his parenting in lunges of impetuous dad-ness.

    Revenge of the Wimps 2010

  • Reputable companies supplying vintage spectacles from the fifties will be able to give an indication on how robust the frames are likely to be but it is likely that they too will be able to offer any cast-iron guarantees, for the same reason.

    Framed Vintage | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • My father swore by Kodachrome, taking off his thick-rimmed Philip Larkin spectacles to peer myopically through viewfinders.

    Brownie Points Peter Ashley 2008

  • It was obvious once you knew it, of course — the surfeit of art galleries, the way the men were all muscular and fit and shaved, the bars filled with hot chicks in spectacles dancing with each other — but the thing is, as a kid, only the proudest and most confident people tell you, "Hey, I'm gay."

    The Terrible Secret Of Provincetown, or: Even A Stopped Clock joegrossberg 2005

  • He has a beautiful daughter Gafas (which in Moro language signifies "cotton," and in Spanish "spectacles"), who attended the American School.

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

  • In a manuscript written in 1299 by Pissazzo, the author says: "I find myself so pressed by age that I can neither read nor write without those glasses they call spectacles, lately invented, to the great advantage of poor old men when their sight grows weak."

    Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 Various

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  • Gafas // Similar meaning: glasses

    October 19, 2007