Meaning of nose glasses | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A style of eyeglasses without earpieces, often attached to a cord or ribbon allowing them to be hung around the neck.
   historical, plural, plural-only
2. A pair of eyeglasses (or eyeglass frames) to which is attached a hollow false nose, worn as a humorous disguise.
   plural, plural-only

Examples

“1825, William Henry Pyne (as Ephraim Hardcastle), The Twenty-Ninth of May, London: Knight and Lacey, Volume 1, Chapter 4, p. 105, Old Waller, elbowing his way through the crowd, planted himself right before his shop, putting on his nose-glasses, and measuring the amount of the damage;”

“1885, Vanity Fair, Volume 33, p. 140, “Diary of Rasper, M.P.,” Speaker, nervously twiddling nose-glasses, instinctively stretches out hand for new Procedure Rules, like Old Bailey Judge fumbling for black cap.”

“There was blood on the altar steps, and on the floor below, where his noseglasses, unbroken, on the end of their black ribbon, lay.”

“Raising his head, Mr. Elkin took off his noseglasses and rubbed at the inflamed prints on either side of his nose.”

“The magic shop purveyed such goodies as the arrow-through-the-head and nose glasses, props I turned into professional assets later on.”

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