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granny glasses

NOUN
small eyeglasses
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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

They dressed her up in a calico apron, a gray wig, and granny glasses to make her look like an old lady.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen



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