Meanings
- attributiveAttributive form of tea shades.
He glances up to take in Fletcher’s shaggy blond hair, his tea-shade glasses, and his thin line of moustache.
2013, Robert McGill, chapter 1, in Once We Had a Country, London: Jonathan Cape, published 2014, →ISBN, part 1 (Come Home, America)2 more examples
Pepper’s world was way more colorful, as if viewed through Lennon’s new tinted wireframe “tea-shade” glasses.
2015, Hal Rubenstein, “We Loved You, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah: The Beatles Make Over the World, 1965”, in The Looks of Love: 50 Moments in Fashion That Inspired Romance, New York, N.Y.: Harper Design, →ISBN, page 185, column 2After getting her first month's salary, she got her hair done with stylish vertical bangs and wore tight pants and white sneakers or a light poncho with holey, stone-washed jeans. Naturally she complimented it with tea-shade sunglasses whose branding was carefully preserved…
2016, Lu Min, “‘Open’”, in This Love Could Not Be Delivered, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, chapter 2 (1990), section 2
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