granny glasses

American  

plural noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

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