granny glasses
Americanplural noun
Example Sentences
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I wore one of my go-ahead-underestimate-me suits complete with purple granny glasses.
From Slate ● May 28, 2022
Photos of the future first couple from their university years — granny glasses, peacoats, shaggy hair — reinforced an image of the baby boomers ascending to power.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2016
His eyewear — which consisted of asymmetrical '80s shades, granny glasses and third-eye sunnies and bested any performer this side of Elton John — perfectly highlighted his waxed eyebrows and makeup-clad face.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2016
It showed an excruciatingly ill-at-ease Mr. Segel guised as Wallace circa the mid-’90s — in granny glasses and a bandanna — wearing an expression that seemed to say, “I shouldn’t be here at all.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2015
She recently took to wearing shawls and granny glasses, American fashions.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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