beglassed

Adjective

beglassed (not comparable)

1. Synonym of bespectacled.
   • If the child of five needs glasses to prevent injury to the eyes and to the health, the chances are that at a later age the double injury will not be avoided except by glasses. All the nonsense about “bespectacled children” and a “beglassed nation” must be contemptuously put down. If the facts are...1902 September 13, American Medicine, page 402
   • Why do people who wear eyeglasses or spectacles insist upon keeping them on when photographed? That simple detail will ruin the otherwise most successful portrait ever taken. And yet the beglassed one clings to her glasses nine times out of ten.1906 June 30, “As It Is In Paris: Catherine Talbot Tells of a New Musical Fad, How to Sit For a Portrait, and Describes Some Smart Negligees”, in The Mansfield News, twenty-second year, number 99...

   Synonyms:

   bespectacled

2. Covered with glass, such as a building with a façade comprised primarily of windows.
   • From then until the time for closing a constant stream of delighted visitors marched through the great beglassed structures.1915 April 5, “Great Crowds Admire Shows in the Parks; Oakland and Northside Conservatories Meccas for Flower Lovers. Weather of Day Perfect”, in The Pittsburgh Post, 73rd year, number 208, page one
   • Aunt Ora, who always had her hats “created” by her own milliner, wandered with Mother Q., into one of Hollywood’s lush, beglassed, eating establishments.1952 January 24, Fran Quigley, “Quips and Quotes”, in The Chappell Register, volume 65, number 43