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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gold-rimmed
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
steel-/horn-/gold-rimmed glasses (=with frames made of steel etc)
▪ He was a thin little guy with gold-rimmed glasses.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
spectacle
▪ The gold-rimmed spectacles gave her a studious air.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gold-rimmed/red-rimmed etc
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Daniel was a compact, antic man with gold-rimmed glasses and thinning salt-and-pepper hair.
▪ The gold-rimmed spectacles gave her a studious air.
▪ You could wheel in Julius Caesar and Pike would just sit there, peering at him through his gold-rimmed glasses.

Usage examples of "gold-rimmed".

A respectable-looking buxom brown-skinned woman wearing gold-rimmed glasses opened the door onto a chain and asked through the crack, "Who you want to see?

To the left, a man in a dark raincoat, and wearing an odd-looking pair of gold-rimmed spectacles, stepped forward.

In less than fifteen seconds, the driver of the Peugeot was joined by the man in the black raincoat, now replacing his gold-rimmed glasses, adjusting his eyes to his restored vision.

Its door opened and a man stepped out—a killer in a black raincoat, wearing thin, gold-rimmed spectacles.

Words were exchanged over the hood of the Peugeot, gold-rimmed spectacles adjusted, hands placed in outsized pockets, unseen weapons gripped.

A tall, gaunt man wearing gold-rimmed spectacles had said the words in the Steppdeckstrasse.

They were as aware as any pair of eyes Bourne had ever seen, except perhaps behind gold-rimmed glasses in Zurich.

David Abrahams was waiting for him, lanky and skinny as ever, but he was balding a little and he had taken to wearing gold-rimmed spectacles which gave him a perpetually startled expression.

When she saw them she snatched the gold-rimmed reading glasses off her nose - she hated even the family to see her wearing them - and she demanded, 'What are you two so merry about?

She was wearing gold-rimmed glasses, and her pocketbook was trimmed with something that certainly looked like mink.