The Only Use of
spectacle
in
The Devil and Tom Walker
Uses with a very rare meaning:
- He had also a great folio Bible on his counting-house desk, and would frequently be found reading it when people called on business; on such occasions he would lay his green spectacles in the book, to mark the place, while he turned round to drive some usurious bargain.†
Definition:
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) The term spectacles is also used to refer to eyeglasses.