DCHP-3

snow-eyes

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n. pl — Obs.

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

Quotations

1748
If their Clothes and other Necessaries are well contrived, their Snow-Eyes, as they very properly call them, are no less so.
1772
He was afterwards employed in making his sled, while I was engaged in making a pair of snow-eyes.
1819
For the purpose of guarding off the intense light reflected from the snow, they make use of a very ingenious kind of spectacle, or snow-eyes, as they call them.