gig-lamps

British  

plural noun

1. an old-fashioned slang term for spectacles

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gig-lamps

I've had my gig-lamps smashed at the Nets till I got excused.

From Stalky & Co. by Kipling, Rudyard

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

"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

It's the man who sticks to the one game that drives the swaggerest dog-cart and wears the whitest gig-lamps in the long run.

From Taking Chances by Cullen, Clarence L.

Notice that well-to-do stockbroker crawling about on his stomach in the underbrush, with his spectacles shining like gig-lamps.

From Literary Lapses by Leacock, Stephen