All 15 Uses
spectacle
in
Harry Potter (#6) and the Half-Blood Prince
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- There were streaks of gray in his mane of tawny hair and his bushy eyebrows; he had keen yellowish eyes behind a pair of wire-rimmed spectacles and a certain rangy, loping grace even though he walked with a slight limp.†
Chpt 1
- Half-moon spectacles were perched on his crooked nose, and he was wearing a long black traveling cloak and a pointed hat.†
Chpt 3
- "— to worry or frighten them?" said Dumbledore, surveying Harry over the top of his half-moon spectacles.†
Chpt 4
- Mrs. Weasley opened the door to reveal her husband, a thin, balding, redhaired wizard wearing horn-rimmed spectacles and a long and dusty traveling cloak.†
Chpt 5
- "Are we still doing D.A. meetings this year, Harry?" asked Luna, who was detaching a pair of psychedelic spectacles from the middle of The Quibbler.†
Chpt 7
- "Wrackspurt got you?" asked Luna sympathetically, peering at Harry through her enormous colored spectacles.†
Chpt 7
- She looked as odd as ever, glittering with beads and trailing shawls, her eyes magnified to enormous size by her spectacles.†
Chpt 8
- Professor McGonagall peered at him through her square spectacles.†
Chpt 9
- Dumbledore beamed at him, peering over the top of his half-moon spectacles.†
Chpt 13
- So they still don't know where you go?" asked Harry, hoping for more information on this intriguing subject, but Dumbledore merely smiled over the top of his half-moon spectacles.†
Chpt 17
- "Aha!" she cried, pointing dramatically at Harry as she blinked at him through her magnifying spectacles.†
Chpt 20 *
- "I see," said Dumbledore eventually, peering at Harry over the top of his half-moon spectacles and giving Harry the usual sensation that he was being X-rayed.†
Chpt 20
- Harry stared into the whitened face he knew so well, at the crooked nose and half-moon spectacles, and did not know what to do.†
Chpt 26
- Harry reached out, straightened the half-moon spectacles upon the crooked nose, and wiped a trickle of blood from the mouth with his own sleeve.†
Chpt 28
- And a new portrait had joined the ranks of the dead headmasters and headmistresses of Hogwarts: Dumbledore was slumbering in a golden frame over the desk, his half-moon spectacle perched upon his crooked nose, looking peaceful and untroubled.†
Chpt 29 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(spectacle as in: made a spectacle of herself) a notable or unusual event that attracts attention
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(2)
(spectacle as in: wore spectacles) an optical lens (generally in pairs as eyeglasses)
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)