gig-lamps

In it, she squints at the camera from behind thick-rimmed glasses of the kind once known as "gig-lamps"; more importantly, hers is only black face in the picture.

Labour leadership: The contenders 2010

Huge great gig-lamps with clunkingly heavy frames and they were all wearing them, from John Sessions as a doleful Geoffrey Howe to Michael Maloney as a quietly manipulative John Major.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

Huge great gig-lamps with clunkingly heavy frames and they were all wearing them, from John Sessions as a doleful Geoffrey Howe to Michael Maloney as a quietly manipulative John Major.

The glasses of time 2009

You might see his bay mare and gig-lamps a score of miles away from his Rectory House, whenever there was any dinner-party at Fuddleston, or at Roxby, or at Wapshot Hall, or at the great lords of the county, with all of whom he was intimate.

Vanity Fair 2006

Why, if he ain't, he'll haunt us, the old ruffian, gig-lamps an 'all!

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

Why, if he ain't, he'll haunt us, the old ruffian, gig-lamps an 'all!

Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

Benvenuto, "because all three of them wore great gig-lamps on their noses; whereupon they all three gasped at each other, shrugged their shoulders, and with God's blessing, made off."

Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison

'Twas a spectacle to see him in his gig-lamps row along,

Sagittulae, Random Verses Edward Woodley Bowling

Every second wagon blinded them with its two glaring gig-lamps, and slapped up the mud on to their cheeks.

Letters from France 1923

You might see his bay-mare and gig-lamps a score of miles away from his Rectory House, whenever there was any dinner-party at Fuddleston, or at Roxby, or at Wapshot Hall, or at the great lords of the county, with all of whom he was intimate.

XI. Arcadian Simplicity 1917