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  2. Glasses - Wikipedia

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    Glasses, also known as eyeglasses or spectacles, are vision eyewear with clear or tinted lenses mounted in a frame that holds them in front of a person's eyes, typically utilizing a bridge over the nose and hinged arms, known as temples or temple pieces, that rest over the ears for support.

  3. Pince-nez - Wikipedia

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    Pince-nez (/ ˈ p ɑː n s n eɪ / or / ˈ p ɪ n s n eɪ /, plural form same as singular; [1] French pronunciation:) is a style of glasses, popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, that are supported without earpieces, by pinching the bridge of the nose. The name comes from French pincer, "to pinch", and nez, "nose".

  4. Monocle - Wikipedia

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    The second style, which was developed in the 1890s, was the most elaborate, consisting of a frame with a raised edge-like extension known as the gallery. [2] The gallery was designed to help secure the monocle in place by raising it out of the eye's orbit slightly so that the eyelashes would not jar it.

  5. Rimless eyeglasses - Wikipedia

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    The template for rimless eyeglasses date back to the 1820s, when an Austrian inventor named Johann Friedrich Voigtländer [] marketed a rimless monocle. [2] The design as it is known today arose in the 1880s [3] as a means to alleviate the combined weight of metal frames with heavy glass lenses.

  6. Browline glasses - Wikipedia

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    Browline glasses are a style of eyeglass frames where the "bold" upper part holding the lenses resembles eyebrows framing the eyes. They were very popular during the 1950s and 1960s, especially in the US. The glasses were first manufactured by Shuron Ltd in 1947 under the "Ronsir" brand, and quickly emulated by various other manufacturers.

  7. Eyewear - Wikipedia

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    Modern glasses, the most dominant form of eyewear. Eyewear is a term used to refer to all devices worn over both of a person's eyes, or occasionally a single eye, for one or more of a variety of purposes. Though historically used for vision improvement and correction, eyewear has also evolved into eye protection, for fashion and aesthetic ...

  8. Windsor glasses - Wikipedia

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    The minimalist nature of Windsor glasses presents some pragmatic advantages over other styles.. Glasses that have eyerims with a particular customised shape may be subject to vendor lock-in, where the only company able to manufacture new lenses for a given frame is the same company from which that frame was purchased.

  9. Bifocals - Wikipedia

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    Bifocals are eyeglasses with two distinct optical powers correcting vision at both long and short distances. Bifocals are commonly prescribed to people with presbyopia who also require a correction for myopia , hyperopia , and/or astigmatism .

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