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means Tinted glasses worn over the eyes to shield them from bright sunlight and glare.
from A transparent compound: 'sun' from Old English 'sunne' joined to 'glasses,' the plural that came to mean spectacles after glass lenses were ground for the eyes. The word is fairly modern — it arrives once mass-produced tinted eyewear made shading your eyes a fashion as much as a function, in the early 20th century. Tinted lenses themselves are far older: smoke-colored quartz spectacles were used in China centuries ago, the popular story goes, to hide a judge's expression in court — a fitting ancestor for an object built to keep others from reading your eyes.
- roman origins
- Emperor Nero watched gladiators through polished emeralds
- inuit ingenuity
- Carved bone goggles with thin slits fought snow blindness
- hollywood debt
- Stars wore them to dodge fans and bright studio lights
- polarized trick
- They block glare bouncing off water and roads
- uv shield
- Dark lenses without UV protection harm eyes more
ray-ban aviator — iconic pilot sunglasses worn by tom cruise in top gun, first mass-produced in 1936
oakley frogskins — cult sports sunglasses launched in 1985, worn by athletes across skateboarding and cycling
persol 714 — italian handcrafted sunglasses since 1938, worn by steve jobs and featured in countless films