travelling spectacles

Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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slotted goggles of wood, bone, ivory, etc., worn as protection against snowblindness, especially by Eskimos. [See picture at snow goggles.]

See: snow goggles(and picture)

Quotations

1681

Ordered that Mr. John Bridgar bespeake 10 Dozen of Travelling specktacles.