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glassesed

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Etymology

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From glasses +‎ -ed.

Adjective

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glassesed (not comparable)

  1. (rare, chiefly in combination) Synonym of bespectacled
    • 1973, Max Wilk, “‘Lullaby of Broadway’ (Harry Warren)”, in They’re Playing Our Song, Atheneum, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 118:
      Even today, among the latest generation of the early ’70s, those bushy-haired, granny-glassesed, passionately intense film devotees, there is keen awareness of [Harry] Warren’s songs.
    • 1995, Julia Phillips, Driving Under the Affluence, HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 313:
      Skinny. Bearded. Baseball-capped. Dark-Glassesed.
    • 2010, Joshua Cohen, Witz, Dalkey Archive Press, pages 213 and 284:
      Benjamin approaches it again in His wend, slowly around and circumambulating around its corrupting presence amazed, what not to be by these skins, these hides, maniacal pagings parchmented by weather, burdening the faces of slagblackened, goldenbrown brick: windrustled tattery newsprinted images of white middleaged Midwestern balding and cleanshaven and glassesed politicians posed in meticulously managed stages of photogenicy and colors of tie blue and red, faced amid a clutter of magazine clippings, tearsheets of fawning, gawking celebrity profile: [] the table’s “father”—rabinically rachitic, a gruff, glassesed mensch with a whitened scrofulous scruff about the taut cheeks and recessive chin []
    • 2012 January 1, “Be the Next Stan Lee”, in Front, number 164, page 22, column 1:
      STAN ‘THE MAN’ Lee, big daddy of the Marvel empire and creator of Spider-Man, X-Men and way more, has just put out two books chock-full of advice for anyone looking to follow in his big-glassesed footsteps.