nose glasses
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of nose glasses
First recorded in 1885–90
Example Sentences
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Mrs. Shaw beamed through nose glasses, brushed her hair straight back, dressed in a modified Edwardian style, wore and advocated short skirts.
From Time Magazine Archive
By the end of the act I was wearing the hat with the arrow, the balloon animals, the nose glasses and the bunny ears.
From Time Magazine Archive
"He wore nose glasses," she recalls, "and looked more like a professor than he does now."
From Time Magazine Archive
On the man's head he has drawn nose glasses, bunny ears and a hat with an arrow through it.
From Time Magazine Archive
He looked over his nose glasses at Jordan and Daniel and Eleanore.
From The Goose Man by Porterfield, Allen Wilson
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