eyeglassed

See also: eye-glassed

English

Alternative forms

• eye-glassed

Etymology

From eyeglass +‎ -ed.

Adjective

eyeglassed (not comparable)

1. Synonym of bespectacled
   • 1865 October 7, The Belfast News-Letter, year CXXVIII, number 33,187, Belfast, column 1:

     A double-eyeglassed dandy, with dyed whiskers, which he paws and throws over his shoulder, who does not drawl his words, but speaks them somewhat through his nose, and with a stutter and a lisp, may not seem a very novel or attractive sort of character, but, as Mr. Sothern plays it, really it is both.

   • 2001 January 4, Stu Bykofsky, “Unforgettable”, in Philadelphia Daily News, volume 76, number 233, Philadelphia, Pa., page 39:

     Some things are unforgettable. For instance, I once read that rotund, eyeglassed comedian Drew Carey, who comes across so square he’s cubic, has pierced nipples.

   • 2008 August 3, Sam Sifton, “Berlin captures the cultural zeitgeist”, in Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Honolulu, Haw., page G2, column 1:

     The room provides a view of the kind of restaurant scene only a city that has both money and space can provide: a large, airy dining room set under low ceilings, with wide tables and gentle lighting, packed close with artists, curators, dealers, gallery guys, smart-eyeglassed business tyros in three-piece suits, fat burghers eating Irish steak, French entrecote, Argentine beef.

Translations

wearing glasses (spectacles) — see bespectacled