nose glasses
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.12 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "1825, William Henry Pyne (as Ephraim Hardcastle), The Twenty-Ninth of May, London: Knight and Lacey, Volume 1, Chapter 4, p. 105, Old Waller, elbowing his way through the crowd, planted himself right before his shop, putting on his nose-glasses, and measuring the amount of the damage;"
- "1885, Vanity Fair, Volume 33, p. 140, “Diary of Rasper, M.P.,” Speaker, nervously twiddling nose-glasses, instinctively stretches out hand for new Procedure Rules, like Old Bailey Judge fumbling for black cap."
- "There was blood on the altar steps, and on the floor below, where his noseglasses, unbroken, on the end of their black ribbon, lay."
- "Raising his head, Mr. Elkin took off his noseglasses and rubbed at the inflamed prints on either side of his nose."
- "The magic shop purveyed such goodies as the arrow-through-the-head and nose glasses, props I turned into professional assets later on."