ADJECTIVE
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having the frame made of horn or tortoise shell or plastic that simulates either
horn-rimmed glasses
How To Use horn-rimmed In A Sentence
- In one appearance, after the first bout of bombing, he was wearing uncharacteristic horn-rimmed spectacles.
- They weren't those thick horn-rimmed glasses, thank God, but they were big oval-shaped wire-rims.
- His brown hair was cut short and messy, and a pair of horn-rimmed glasses balanced on his nose.
- Ma Dubois is in her late seventies: old and wrinkled with a blue frock, a Brillo pad of wiry grey hair and a pair of thick horn-rimmed glasses.
- They were young men with horn-rimmed glasses and bow ties and even younger women with long braids, some serious and others smiling, but all appearing woefully unprepared for life on China's harsh northwestern frontier.
- Because we, what with our anal-retentive, horn-rimmed parsing of phrases and slicing of sentences, are really semanticists when it boils down to it.
- He is elderly and balding, with horn-rimmed glasses and tobacco-stained teeth, wearing a neat blue pullover, clean white shirt and sandals.
- For reading and occasional headaches, she wore a pair of horn-rimmed spectacles prescribed but not specially ground by the optical department, cater-corner from the children's shoes. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It
- Hello, Stephanie," the fortyish man with horn-rimmed spectacles and a pin-striped dress-shirt replied. Stephanie Consults Her Clipboard [Card #7: The Chariot (WORK-IN-PROGRESS — v.4)]
- When they entered the courtyard, several stableboys rushed forward to take their mounts, and a tall, thin man with horn-rimmed glasses and a heavy fur coat ushered them into the castle.