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BESPECTACLED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bespectacled mean?
• BESPECTACLED (adjective)
The adjective BESPECTACLED has 1 sense:
1. wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass
Familiarity information: BESPECTACLED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass
Synonyms:
bespectacled; monocled; spectacled
Context example:
the monocled gentleman
Similar:
adorned; decorated (provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction)
Context examples
He was a thin, gruff, bespectacled man of middle age, his cheeks haggard, and his hands twitching from the nervous strain to which he had been subjected.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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