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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