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pair of glasses

n. A pair of lenses set in a frame worn on the nose and ears in order to correct deficiencies in eyesight or to ornament the face.

Usage examples of "pair of glasses".

He had on a new pair of glasses that looked just like his old ones, except they were so new that they shone in the moonlight.

Toomey shoved his white-socked feet into carpet slippers, hung a pair of glasses on his big nose, took a revolver off a chair beside him.

She has a pair of glasses but won't wear them, and they're out of date anyway.

Or, rather, his doctor had said, squinting above a pair of glasses held together with orange Elastoplast, `Terry, you're going to have to change your lifestyle, that is if you're going to have any life at all.

His intelligence was obvious as he looked Jenks and me over, fingers fumbling at his shirt pocket for a pair of glasses while we stood there in our thief-black outfits.

Sitting on the corner of the desk was another bottle, the duplicate of the one Bryant had in his quarantine chamber, and a pair of glasses.

It was the simple fact that the Baudelaires and the Quagmires were different people, and a hair ribbon, a pair of glasses, and some shoes couldn't turn them into one another any more than a woman disguised as a dragonfly can actually take wing and escape the disaster awaiting her.

McCall, a little hunted-looking man, the natural peculiarities of whose face were accentuated by a pair of glasses of semicircular shape, like half-moons with the horns turned up.