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granny glasses

NOUN
small eyeglasses
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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

Cindy’s new mentor is Leslie, a caffeinated young woman in granny glasses, who whisks her off to such exhilarating assignments as the finance subcommittee meeting of the Board of Education.

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2020

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

I’d never seen anyone in it before except the sad old hippie in granny glasses, a Hampden graduate, who owned it.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt