gig-lamps

British  

plural noun

1. an old-fashioned slang term for spectacles

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Example Sentences

"I say, you with the gig-lamps, toss a poor devil a bit o' 'bacco."

From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Caine, Hall, Sir

Jack's a straw-thatched young joker in gig-lamps, good-natured, and nuts on the sport.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93. July 30, 1887 by

Still, he had learned more at Oxford than was taught in books--he had learned to be a manly fellow in spite of his gig-lamps.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 02 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur

Every second wagon blinded them with its two glaring gig-lamps, and slapped up the mud on to their cheeks.

From Letters from France by Bean, C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow)

The wives took after their husbands, who could drive without gig-lamps in the darkest night.

From Thirty Years in Australia by Cambridge, Ada