DCHP-1 Online

travelling spectacles Obs.

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

  See also: snow goggles (and picture)  

  • 1681  (1945)  Ordered that Mr. John Bridgar bespeake 10 Dozen of Travelling specktacles.