| 单词 | pebble glasses |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspebble glasses b. spec. Designating very thick convex lenses (originally, those made from rock crystal), or spectacles made with such lenses, as pebble glasses, pebble lens, etc. ΚΠ 1813 C. Quigley Poems 48 Here fops, in abundance, to glance at the lasses, Make a practice of wearing pebble eye glasses. 1823 J. Mawe Treat. Diamonds (rev. ed.) ii. 119 Larger pieces [of crystal] are cut for the glasses of spectacles, hence called Pebble Spectacles. 1889 G. M. Hopkins Exper. Sci. xii. 242 Brazilian pebble spectacle lenses often show gorgeous colors when turned at different angles in the beam of polarized light. 1933 C. St. J. Sprigg Fatality in Fleet St. i. 14 His beady eyes regarded the Chief coldly behind his pebble eye-glasses. 1964 R. Church Voy. Home viii. 166 Thick, pebble lenses, flashed at me like headlamps. 1990 P. Melville Shape-shifter (1991) 80 Lily was yelling through the plastic front of the kiosk to a hunch-back woman with thick pebble glasses. < as lemmas |
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