glacier glasses

English

Noun

glacier glasses pl (plural only)

  1. A type of dimmed or polarized eyeglasses or goggles used to prevent snow blindness.
    • 1982 February 13, Lee Swislow, “Amazon Trekking”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 9:
      At 17,000 feet the sun is bright and the air is thin. Glacier glasses take care of the bright sun. There was nothing to take care of the thin air.
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