spectacles

/ ˈspɛktəkəlz /

plural noun

1. Often (informal) shortened to: specs. a pair of glasses for correcting defective vision

2. cricket a score of 0 in each innings of a match

Example Sentences

The painting showed an old man in cracked spectacles standing beside a lame horse, in the midst of a homestead that had burned to the ground, so that only the smoking ruins remained.

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Fascist leaders need gargantuan physical symbols of their greatness, and both the architecture and the spectacles inevitably trend toward kitsch.

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With a rubber hand and a silver tongue, he turns his sales into crowded spectacles.

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James Madison memorably concluded, in Federalist No. 10, that democracies “have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention.”

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They found a pair of her father’s vintage spectacles and fragments of his sculptures, assembled from knickknacks and everyday objects.

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