spectacledadj.
/ˈspɛktək(ə)ld/ a. Provided with or wearing spectacles.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. i. 203 All tongues speake of him, and the bleared sights Are spectacled to see him. View more context for this quotation
1625 T. Middleton Game at Chæss ii. i When the Inquisitors came all spectacled To pick out syllables.
1779 Mirror No. 8 Those grave personages, whom you may observe daily..rising in a coffee-house in the full dignity of a spectacled nose.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian v, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 132 Half-scared by the..spectacled old lady, by whom these tempting stores are watched.
1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour vi. xxix. 175 ‘I think it will be a fine day,’ he said,..turning his spectacled face up to the clouds.
1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 215 A couple of spectacled professional gentlemen.
b. With distinguishing adjectives.
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1884 G. Allen Philistia I. 12 There was honesty..in those hazy blue-spectacled eyes.
1896 Idler Mar. 247/2 This innocent-looking little gold-spectacled bald-headed gentleman.
Compounds
In names of birds, animals, etc., having spectacle-shaped markings or the appearance of wearing spectacles (see quots. and spectacle n.1 Compounds 2b).
spectacled alligator n.
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1831 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom IX. Syn. 21 Spectacled Alligator, Crocodilus (Alligator) Sclerops.
spectacled bear n.
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1835 Penny Cycl. IV. 87 The Spectacled Bear, Ursus Ornatus of F. Cuvier, inhabits the Cordilleras of the Andes in Chili.
1894 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. II. 23 The spectacled bear of the Peruvian Andes..is a small-sized black species.
spectacled cayman n.
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1830 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom XI. 188 The Spectacled Cayman (Crocodilus Sclerops) is the most common in Cayenne.
spectacled cobra n.
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1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 197 They sustain a fold of integument, peculiarly coloured in some species— e.g., the spectacled cobra.
c1880 Cassell's Nat. Hist. IV. 304 The natives say that the Spectacled Cobra is a Snake of the city or town.
spectacled eider n.
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1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 292 Spectacled Eider,..a whitish space round eye, bounded by black.
spectacled guillemot n.
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1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 815 Uria carbo,..Spectacled Guillemot.
spectacled salamander n.
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1896 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. V. 298 The little spectacled salamander (Salamandrina perspicillata) of Italy.
spectacled serpent n.
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1831 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom IX. 274 Named Spectacled Serpent, from a black line drawn on the widened part of its disk in the form of spectacles.
1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. v. i. 259 The Naia or Spectacled Serpents—called also the Hooded Snakes.
spectacled snake n.
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a1832 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XXII. 397/1 The Snakemen [of India]..never use in their shows any other poisonous Snake than the Spectacled Snake.
spectacled vampire n.
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1871 Cassell's Nat. Hist. I. 262 Leaf-like organs, often of the most extraordinary forms (see the Head of the Spectacled Vampire).
spectacled warbler n.
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1829 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom VI. 446 Spectacled Warbler, Sylvia Conspicillata.
1894–5 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. III. 493 The spectacled warbler builds its nest in a small bush about a foot from the ground.
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