Both Uses
spectacle
in
The Railway Children
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- He shook hands with them and then everybody sat down on chairs, and a gentleman in spectacles — they found afterwards that he was the District Superintendent — began quite a long speech — very clever indeed.†
p. 130.2 *
- The old gentleman took out a pair of gold-rimmed spectacles and fitted them on his nose.†
p. 135.6
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)