side glassn.
/ˈsʌɪd ɡlɑːs/, /ˈsʌɪd ɡlas/, U.S. /ˈsaɪd ˌɡlæs/ΚΠ
1594–5 Acct. Bk. W. Morton in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Side-glas For ane syd glas viii d.
2. A side window of a vehicle, esp. (in early use) of a carriage.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > types of window
side glass1679
wind wing1934
quarter-light1938
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > parts of > window
side glass1679
quarter-light1765
1679 T. Shadwell True Widow i. 2 Your side glass let down hastily, when the party goes by.
1742 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 185 Order him to send me down a very good coach and four horses with side-glasses.
1832 Lancet 15 Sept. 743/1 He let down the side glass and looked out to see whether his master and mistress were safe.
1920 Dun's Internat. Rev. Sept. 137/2 By lowering the side glasses and opening the unusual side ventilators, the new brougham is readily adapted to journeys of any length during the summer weather.
2013 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) (Nexis) 8 June (Motoring section) 1 Our test car..had darker tinted side-glasses, black low-profile wheels and tyres and lowered suspension.
3. A piece of glass fitted into the arm of a pair of (usually tinted) spectacles or goggles to shade or protect the eye from the side. Usually in plural. Now rare and historical.
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the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > [noun] > spectacles > other parts of spectacles
bow1711
frame1729
rims1766
earpiece1824
side glass1830
nosepiece1866
temple1877
nose1895
nose-bridge1923
1830 Morning Post 4 Sept. A person of gentlemanly appearance.., wearing large green spectacles, with side-glasses to the same.., called at my shop.
1852 W.-E. Coale Hints on Health 163 Spectacles are sometimes made with side-glasses, of tinted glass.
1906 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 11 Aug. 320 Goggles..consisting of plain, flat front glasses, with side glasses set at right angles to them.
2008 P. Ackroyd Casebk. of Viktor Frankenstein viii. 94 Green spectacles, blue spectacles.., spectacles with front glasses, spectacles with side glasses, and the like.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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