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Spectacled

Spectacled \Spec"ta*cled\, a.

  1. Furnished with spectacles; wearing spectacles.

    As spectacled she sits in chimney nook.
    --Keats.

  2. (Zo["o]l.) Having the eyes surrounded by color markings, or patches of naked skin, resembling spectacles.

    Spectacled bear (Zo["o]l.), a South American bear ( Tremarclos ornatus) which inhabits the high mountains of Chili and Peru. It has a light-colored ring around each eye.

    Spectacled coot, or Spectacled duck (Zo["o]l.), the surf scoter, or surf duck. [Local, U.S.]

    Spectacled eider (Zo["o]l.) See Eider.

    Spectacled goose (Zo["o]l.), the gannet.

    Spectacled snake (Zo["o]l.), the cobra de capello.

Wiktionary
spectacled

a. 1 Wearing spectacles. 2 Having an appearance of wearing spectacles, especially of animals.

WordNet
spectacled

adj. wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass; "a bespectacled grandmother"; "the monocled gentleman" [syn: bespectacled, monocled]

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Usage examples of "spectacled".

MONK FROM TIBET: He lived in a yurt, ate tea thick with butter, wondered a lot about life, took a vow of chastity but broke it when he was in Alexandria, discovered the Ovis poli and the spectacled bear, not knowing what he had discovered, knew some good jokes, and died without ever being really satisfied.

And then for the first time in her life, there in that airy, golden Chinese restaurant, in the city from which he hasted to flee, Travis Bessemer fell under the charm of the little spectacled colonial, to whose song we all must listen and to whose pipe we all must dance.