granny glasses
Americanplural noun
Example Sentences
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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
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
Perched on his nose was a pair of granny glasses and instead of straight-legs he now wore faded bell-bottom jeans.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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