granny glasses

plural noun

1. eyeglasses with wirelike metal frames that sometimes sit below the bridge of the nose and often have oval lenses.

Example Sentences

"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'"

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“You sort of identified John Lennon as wearing those type of round granny glasses, as he called them himself. And their photo match to a photograph taken by Ian McKellen for the book ‘The Lives of John Lennon’- it comes with that book as well.”

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I wore one of my go-ahead-underestimate-me suits complete with purple granny glasses.

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I’d never seen anyone in it before except the sad old hippie in granny glasses, a Hampden graduate, who owned it.

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Consider Tavi Gevinson, the fashion blogger turned writer and actress once known for her bulky layers and granny glasses.

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