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Definition of Bespectacled
1. Adjective. Wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass. "The monocled gentleman"
Definition of Bespectacled
1. Adjective. Wearing spectacles (glasses). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bespectacled
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bespectacled
Literary usage of Bespectacled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"bespectacled, fitted with spectacles, and so dim-sighted. It is impossible that
a white-veiled, lank, and bespectacled duenna should move or excite a wanton ..."
2. The Works of A. Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
"Tall and short, tweed coated and black, round-shouldered, bespectacled and slim,
they crowded with clatter of feet and rattle of sticks through the hospital ..."
3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1912)
"They are probably the finest copies extant of these important items of Americana.
A small, bespectacled girl of not more than thirteen years created a mild ..."
4. American Public Health Protection by Henry Bixby Hemenway, Edwin Frederick Bowers, Mary Sewall Gardner (1916)
"This really important matter has been largely ignored by orthodox science, as
unworthy the profound consideration of bespectacled wisdom. ..."
5. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association, Richard Rogers Bowker, Charles Ammi Cutter (1908)
"Behold I In yonder man bespectacled, to outward Studious, so grave of mien, in
him An object worthy your endeavor; child, He reads his novel daily; nay, ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"The Rome correspondent of the Times gives a picture of Cardinal Gasquet at his
work: — Down a long room -where a dozen bespectacled students of all ages sat ..."
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