nose glasses

American  

plural noun

1. eyeglasses held in place by a spring that clamps them to the bridge of the nose; pince-nez.

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Etymology

Origin of nose glasses

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

By the end of the act I was wearing the hat with the arrow, the balloon animals, the nose glasses and the bunny ears.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the man's head he has drawn nose glasses, bunny ears and a hat with an arrow through it.

From Time Magazine Archive

He wore striped pants, a wing collar, a spade-tailed coat, and nose glasses leashed with yards of black, fluttering ribbon.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pale and unsmiling, he signed; "Judge" Hull, scowling, affixed his nose glasses and signed after him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her knuckles were no longer red and rough; her fingernails were manicured; the sagging spectacles of the old days had given way to intellectual looking nose glasses with narrow tortoise shell rims.

From The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery or, The Christmas Adventure at Carver House by Frey, Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude)