sun-glasses

A form of sunglasses — Tinted glasses worn to protect the eyes from the sun or other bright light, and may also be worn as a fashion accessory.

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nounsun-glasses pl (plural only)
  1. alternativepluralplural onlyAlternative form of sunglasses.

    One of the Irgun soldiers dropped the big sun-glasses he was wearing as a disguise.

    1951, Menachem Begin, “Dov Gruner”, in The Revolt: Story of the Irgun, New York, N.Y.: Henry Schuman, →OCLC, page 253
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    Biocky, unimaginative, and the pukey colour scheme has you searching out those Blues Brothers sun-glasses you bought on holiday last year, just before they went out of fashion.

    1992 March, Ian Osborne, “Skull and Crossbones”, in Phil King, editor, Zzap!64, Ludlow, Shropshire: Europress Impact Ltd, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 48–49

    Within the group of low involvement "feel" products the following 10 were retained (in descending order of "feelness"): birthday cards, indoor plants, liquor, sun-glasses, pilsner beer, pralines, port, potato crisps, cookies, chocolate.

    1995, IJRM - Volume 12 - Page 200
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