gig-lamps

British

plural noun

an old-fashioned slang term for spectacles

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

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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.

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Scalp me if I don’t go and hunt bugs upon the perairie with a brace o’ gig-lamps stuck across my nose.

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The big, fat Providence in gig-lamps is sitting by the patient.

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"Get that girl to give back your gig-lamps, and you will be able to see more clearly into the soul of the Far East."

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