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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

Mr. Stanfield also brought along rose-colored granny glasses, which he described as “my soul realized in third-dimensional space.”

From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2018

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

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



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