beglassedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From be- +‎ glass +‎ -ed.

形容詞

beglassed (not comparable)

1. Synonym of bespectacled
   • 1902 September 13, American Medicine, page 402:

     If the child of five needs glasses to prevent injury to the eyes and to the health, the chances are that at a later age the double injury will not be avoided except by glasses. All the nonsense about “bespectacled children” and a “beglassed nation” must be contemptuously put down. If the facts are as stated, pride and prejudice must have no voice in the matter.

   • 1906 June 30, “As It Is In Paris: Catherine Talbot Tells of a New Musical Fad, How to Sit For a Portrait, and Describes Some Smart Negligees”, in The Mansfield News, twenty-second year, number 99, Mansfield, Ohio, page twelve:

     Why do people who wear eyeglasses or spectacles insist upon keeping them on when photographed? That simple detail will ruin the otherwise most successful portrait ever taken. And yet the beglassed one clings to her glasses nine times out of ten.

   • 1933 January 20, “In New York”, in The Sumter Daily Item, volume LXXVII, number 82, Sumter, S.C., page two:

     So I bowed out, while the monocled lady fastened the beglassed eye upon me and the grey haired man commented: “We are all good friends of the prince, and believe in him—”

   • 1937 October 28, “Have You Heard?”, in Merced Express, volume LXIII, number 44, Merced, Calif., page two:

     They were: the dark yell leader (with the blonde, beglassed daughter of Merced police chief);

   • 2013 May 15, Dave Bidini, “The mourning after, with help from Garbo”, in National Post, volume 15, number 164, page A11:

     We were greeted by a tall, beglassed mortician, who looked at us and smiled.

2. Covered with glass, such as a building with a façade comprised primarily of windows.
   • 1915 April 5, “Great Crowds Admire Shows in the Parks; Oakland and Northside Conservatories Meccas for Flower Lovers. Weather of Day Perfect”, in The Pittsburgh Post, 73rd year, number 208, page one:

     From then until the time for closing a constant stream of delighted visitors marched through the great beglassed structures.

   • 1952 January 24, Fran Quigley, “Quips and Quotes”, in The Chappell Register‎^[1], volume 65, number 43:

     Aunt Ora, who always had her hats “created” by her own milliner, wandered with Mother Q., into one of Hollywood’s lush, beglassed, eating establishments.

   • 1960, The Atlantic, page 24:

     […] a new bridge across the Danube, and the elegant beglassed and befountained Hotel Metropol.

   • 1960, Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, The Shining Brow: Frank Lloyd Wright, New York, N.Y.: Horizon Press, page 263:

     Always standing on stilts, their buildings are dangerously beglassed from top to bottom, without sense, necessity, grace, style or character.

   • 1970, Len De Caux, Labor Radical: From the Wobblies to CIO, a Personal History, Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, page 141:

     Not till many years later did labor skates compete with modernistic, beglassed, bemarbled headquarters for their greater glory.