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Horn-rimmed   /hɔrn-rɪmd/   Listen
Horn-rimmed

adjective
1.
Having the frame made of horn or tortoise shell or plastic that simulates either.






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"Horn-rimmed" Quotes from Famous Books



... youth seated in a rocking-chair and looking quite convalescent. But he had company. In a chair opposite sat a man neatly dressed, with a thin, intelligent face, a stubby gray moustache, and shrewd eyes covered by horn-rimmed spectacles. ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville • Edith Van Dyne

... on which the sound of the word schwein fluttered high and low like a capricious feather in a faint stir of air. He and the chief engineer had been cronies for a good few years—serving the same jovial, crafty, old Chinaman, with horn-rimmed goggles and strings of red silk plaited into the venerable grey hairs of his pigtail. The quay-side opinion in the Patna's home-port was that these two in the way of brazen peculation 'had done together pretty well everything you can think of.' Outwardly they were badly matched: one dull-eyed, ...
— Lord Jim • Joseph Conrad



Words linked to "Horn-rimmed" :   rimmed



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