eyeglassed
See also: eye-glassed
English
Alternative forms
- eye-glassed
Etymology
From eyeglass + -ed.
Adjective
eyeglassed (not comparable)
- Synonym of bespectacled
- 1865 October 7, The Belfast News-Letter, year CXXVIII, number 33,187, Belfast, column 1:
- A double-eyeglassed dandy, with dyed whiskers, which he paws and throws over his shoulder, who does not drawl his words, but speaks them somewhat through his nose, and with a stutter and a lisp, may not seem a very novel or attractive sort of character, but, as Mr. Sothern plays it, really it is both.
- 2001 January 4, Stu Bykofsky, “Unforgettable”, in Philadelphia Daily News, volume 76, number 233, Philadelphia, Pa., page 39:
- Some things are unforgettable. For instance, I once read that rotund, eyeglassed comedian Drew Carey, who comes across so square he’s cubic, has pierced nipples.
- 2008 August 3, Sam Sifton, “Berlin captures the cultural zeitgeist”, in Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Honolulu, Haw., page G2, column 1:
- The room provides a view of the kind of restaurant scene only a city that has both money and space can provide: a large, airy dining room set under low ceilings, with wide tables and gentle lighting, packed close with artists, curators, dealers, gallery guys, smart-eyeglassed business tyros in three-piece suits, fat burghers eating Irish steak, French entrecote, Argentine beef.
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