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Answer for the clue "Wearing glasses ", 12 letters:
bespectacled
Word definitions for bespectacled in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1742, past participle adjective from be- + spectacles .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN man ▪ He was in his middle to late fifties, a gray-haired, bespectacled man with a stiff and unsmiling demeanor. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A peasant stands next to them; behind is a bespectacled intellectual. ▪ A tall, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Wearing spectacles (glasses).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass; "a bespectacled grandmother"; "the monocled gentleman" [syn: monocled , spectacled ]
Usage examples of bespectacled.
Hans Krone and our escort, the gaunt, bespectacled Russian, were close behind.
Polish Post Office -- that cannot be -- then for the Post Office of the Federal Republic, and that, nearsighted but bespectacled, he is once more delivering happiness in the form of multicolored banknotes and hard coins.
Freshly bespectacled, Victor Weluhn -- for it was he -- allegedly went so far as to have a beer on the Holzmarkt, and then another, for the flame throwers had made him thirsty.
Lakshmi replied, calling up an image of a heavyset, bespectacled man with long grey hair.
It was easy to picture him as a short, bespectacled physics teacher, one whose utter lack of physical assurance would prompt such curial devotion to the rubrics of the actual.
When the door opposite, across the table, opened at last, it never occurred to me that the first person to enter, after the now familiar bespectacled man in black, would be not some Eisenhower or Wild Bill Donovan or Hap Arnold or either Dulles brother, but my own father.
These blocks of shadows on the polished wood, like the bodies themselves, remained immobile as the stunned faces attached to those bodies stared in astonishment at the gaunt, bespectacled man who stood behind the President in front of a portable blackboard on which he had drawn numerous diagrams using four different colours of chalk.
The bespectacled bureaucrat immediately stood to help her with this platter heaped with all sorts of appetizing delicacies.
It was to this sandy-haired, bespectacled officer that the captain addressed his remarks.
Mac was impressed with the bespectacled lieutenant, who had recently graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in advanced mathematics.
The picture of a middle-aged bespectacled man was displayed here, along with the following information-Property of Dr.
He was eating early dinner in the University cafeteria with a bedraggled, bespectacled brunette from the laboratory.
He saw the ladies and child huddled on the floor, a portly older man in a loud suit curled up in a ball on one seat and a skinny, bespectacled man in an expensive suit nervously fingering a pair of canes by the far window.
I was conjuring up a clubhouse full of older English doctors, bespectacled and bewigged, presenting the talented young woman with this solid gold token of their respect.
Lodge, a bespectacled gentleman farmer with a cherubic face and handsome gray wavy hair, rapped the gavel.