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Snow goggles ( Inuktitut: ilgaak or iggaak, syllabics: ᐃᓪᒑᒃ or ᐃᒡᒑᒃ; Yup'ik: nigaugek, pl. nigauget) are a type of eyewear traditionally used by the Eskimo people of the Arctic to prevent snow blindness.
The goggles are traditionally made of driftwood (especially spruce), bone, walrus ivory, caribou antler, or in some cases seashore grass. The workpiece is carved to fit the wearer's face, and one or more narrow horizontal slits are carved through the front. The goggles fit tightly against the face so that the only light entering is through the slits, and soot is sometimes applied to the inside to help cut down on glare. The slits are made narrow not only to reduce the amount of light entering but also to improve the visual acuity. The greater the width of the slits the larger the field of view.
Usage examples of "snow goggles".
HALFWAY UP TO the top of the ridge, Nylan looked back, adjusting his snow goggles.
We pulled the scarred, abraded and now thoroughly useless snow goggles over our eyes again, hoisted ourselves stiffly to our feet and moved off to the south to find the end of and round the high ridge that had blocked our path.
It battered at the snow goggles and whipped the too-Large hood which now enveloped Ethan's entire head and face.
He walked over to Ethan, tiny particles of ice coating his snow goggles.
Occasionally he'd notice his reflection in the glass -- a man in white camouflage, snow goggles and a pair of binoculars hanging from his neck like some ridiculous caricature of Erwin Rommel.
Rourke hissed, Paul Rubenstein's eyes widening beneath the snow goggles that he wore.
Because he was hot with excitement, he had his snow goggles off and his hood thrown back.
But in reality they only reflected her snow goggles, and the swirling mental fog behind them.
Charlene reached into her backpack, extracting a pair of snow goggles.
She zipped up the front of the bright pink suit and picked up her snow goggles.
Unnoticed by the three of them the trap door had been opened, and ranged alongside it were the sinister figures of the three soldiers in hoods and snow goggles.