All 3 Uses of
spectacle
in
A Passage to India
- Taking off his spectacles, as was his habit before enunciating a general truth, he looked into them sadly, and remarked that the darker races are physically attracted by the fairer, but not vice versa—not a matter for bitterness this, not a matter for abuse, but just a fact which any scientific observer will confirm.†
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- Mr. McBryde resumed his spectacles and proceeded.†
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- "I have nothing to add at present," he concluded, removing his spectacles.†
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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)