granny glasses
plural noun
: spectacles with usually small oval, round, or square lenses and metal frames
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Consider Tavi Gevinson, the fashion blogger turned writer and actress once known for her bulky layers and granny glasses.
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New York Times, 4 May 2021
To this day, Rogowsky keeps a picture of himself in his wallet from a childhood trip to Cooperstown: Tampa Bay Rays hat, granny glasses, gap teeth, oversized Georgia Bulldogs tee and, of course, a paper bag of cards in his hand.
—Jacob Feldman, SI.com, 3 Oct. 2019
There were sweeping Victorian ruffles and bourgeois tweed lunching suits; granny glasses and piles of Elizabethan curls; ruffles and crosses and disco zebra stripes and sequins and floral sweatshirts.
—Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 31 May 2018
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New York Times, 4 May 2021
To this day, Rogowsky keeps a picture of himself in his wallet from a childhood trip to Cooperstown: Tampa Bay Rays hat, granny glasses, gap teeth, oversized Georgia Bulldogs tee and, of course, a paper bag of cards in his hand.
—Jacob Feldman, SI.com, 3 Oct. 2019
There were sweeping Victorian ruffles and bourgeois tweed lunching suits; granny glasses and piles of Elizabethan curls; ruffles and crosses and disco zebra stripes and sequins and floral sweatshirts.
—Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 31 May 2018
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“Granny glasses.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/granny%20glasses. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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