be-glassed

English

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.