tea shade

A form of tea shades — Tinted eyeglasses (spectacles) with circular lenses.

Meanings

noun
  1. attributiveAttributive form of tea shades.

    He sat placidly at the counter and pushed his tea shade glasses back up his nose.

    2011, Robert Brabham, “The Gifts”, in Does This Knife in My Back Make My Butt Look Big? Tales of Madness, Eisegesis, and Other Unpardonables, [Raleigh, N.C.]: Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 236
    2 more examples

    He usually wore a backward baseball cap, mirrored tea shade sunglasses, shotty^([sic – meaning shoddy]) clothes, and tennis shoes.

    2020, Bryan W. Conway, “Mike 1: 6:45 p.m.”, in Sandusky Burning, →ISBN, page 39

    A Chinese man, maybe in his forties, bald or purposefully shaven, it was difficult to say, wearing chic tea shade glasses, a salmon-colored polo, and khakis, stood to the side of the door.

    2022, C.S. Poe, chapter 17, in Subway Slayings (Memento Mori; 2), Oklahoma City, Okla.: Emporium Press, →ISBN
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