spectacles

British  

/ 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

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Example Sentences

And Alexandre’s movie theater, with its bloody spectacles, gets replaced by something very different: a blood bank, a monument to recovery.

From The Wall Street Journal

Better still, the dramatic tension doesn't fall apart during its inevitable sorcery battles which, in lesser film and TV, burst into empty, dragging spectacles with adversaries lamely hurling balls of fake light at each other.

From Salon

Thus concludes what may end up being the most fabulously dumb legal spectacles we've enjoyed in a long while and one of the best things to ever happen to the recently resurrected Court TV.

From Salon

A man who mistakenly ordered 60 pairs of glasses has conceded he may not have been wearing his spectacles when he placed the order.

From BBC

Ms. Salter quoted the Bible as she stood just feet from Mr. Gendron, who wore an orange jumpsuit and spectacles.

From Salon