granny glasses
Americanplural noun
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"In some ways, you stick a wig and a beard on someone, little round granny glasses and a white suit and everyone goes, 'It's John Lennon'"
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2025
I wore one of my go-ahead-underestimate-me suits complete with purple granny glasses.
From Slate ● May 28, 2022
Cindy’s new mentor is Leslie, a caffeinated young woman in granny glasses, who whisks her off to such exhilarating assignments as the finance subcommittee meeting of the Board of Education.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2020
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
Gone were his faded bell- bottoms, his granny glasses.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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