be-glassed

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Adjective

be-glassed (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of beglassed
    • 1906 June 19, “How to Dress When Facing the Camera”, in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, volume 67, number 169, picture section, page 3:
      Why, why do people who wear pinc-nez or spectacles insist upon keeping them on to be photographed in? asks a critic. Anything more disastrous cannot be imagined. That simple detail will ruin the otherwise most successful portrait ever taken. And yet the be-glassed one clings to her glasses nine times out of ten and will not be parted from them.
    • 1939 November 12, Isabella Taves, “Glamour with Glasses”, in The Detroit Free Press, 109th year, number 192, part three, page 10:
      Victor, who wears glasses herself on occasion, scoffs at the idea of hiding the be-glassed visage under a brimmed hat.
    • 2002 April 11, The Bellingham Herald, “Take five”, page 12:
      Bryan Tewell Hughes is slight, white, be-glassed and in possession of a baggy sweater and armpit-length hair that evidently sways with the wind.
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