snow goggles

North

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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slotted goggles of wood, bone, ivory, etc., worn as protection against snowblindness, especially by Eskimos.

Quotations

1882

All three wore spectacles, not snow goggles, but, as the interpreter said, all the same seko (ice).

1941

Snow goggles are useful for flat stretches of country where there are no trees.

1952

Some had been issued snow goggles but some had not, or had lost them.