granny glasses

plural noun

1. eyeglasses with wirelike metal frames that sometimes sit below the bridge of the nose and often have oval lenses.

Example Sentences

“You sort of identified John Lennon as wearing those type of round granny glasses, as he called them himself. And their photo match to a photograph taken by Ian McKellen for the book ‘The Lives of John Lennon’- it comes with that book as well.”

From Reuters

I wore one of my go-ahead-underestimate-me suits complete with purple granny glasses.

From Slate

I’d never seen anyone in it before except the sad old hippie in granny glasses, a Hampden graduate, who owned it.

From Literature

Consider Tavi Gevinson, the fashion blogger turned writer and actress once known for her bulky layers and granny glasses.

From New York Times

She left Common Cause in early 1999 after her marriage to Edward M. Norton, an environmentalist once nicknamed “a Rottweiler in granny glasses” for his fierce negotiating tactics.

From Washington Post