Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of beglassed.
Victor, who wears glasses herself on occasion, scoffs at the idea of hiding the be-glassed visage under a brimmed hat.
1939 November 12, Isabella Taves, “Glamour with Glasses”, in The Detroit Free Press, 109th year, number 192, part three, page 102 more examples
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.
1906 June 19, “How to Dress When Facing the Camera”, in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, volume 67, number 169, picture section, page 3Bryan Tewell Hughes is slight, white, be-glassed and in possession of a baggy sweater and armpit-length hair that evidently sways with the wind.
2002 April 11, The Bellingham Herald, “Take five”, page 12
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