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  • noun Plural form of sidepiece.

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Examples

  • She had a set that she normally wore that had lighter frames with sidepieces of wire that hooked over her ears, but those kept flying off during any sort of exertion; this had been the best they could do for weapons 'practice, and it wasn't very good.

    Exile's Honor Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • She had a set that she normally wore that had lighter frames with sidepieces of wire that hooked over her ears, but those kept flying off during any sort of exertion; this had been the best they could do for weapons 'practice, and it wasn't very good.

    Exile's Honor Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • He was in his mid-seventies, bald, bespectacled, with one of the sidepieces of his glasses held together with masking tape, and potbellied.

    When the Bough Breaks Jonathan Kellerman 1985

  • He was in his mid-seventies, bald, bespectacled, with one of the sidepieces of his glasses held together with masking tape, and potbellied.

    When the Bough Breaks Jonathan Kellerman 1985

  • He was in his mid-seventies, bald, bespectacled, with one of the sidepieces of his glasses held together with masking tape, and potbellied.

    When The Bough Breaks Kellerman, Jonathan 1985

  • He was in his mid-seventies, bald, bespectacled, with one of the sidepieces of his glasses held together with masking tape, and potbellied.

    When the Bough Breaks Jonathan Kellerman 1985

  • His face was a little flabby, and his blue eyes glinted behind rimless spectacles supported by thin, gold sidepieces.

    Maigret and the Apparition Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1964

  • Whittier frame, and it caught her by one of the straps that held her satin panels together across the violet chiffon sidepieces.

    The Wishing-Ring Man Margaret Widdemer 1931

  • Now only the sidepieces which had held the rungs remained.

    The Hidden Staircase Keene, Carolyn 1930

  • I worked down to the edge of the shelf, and looked over into the pit, and, alas! the state of the remaining parts of the ladder was hopeless, owing partly to the decay of the sidepieces, and partly to the general absence of steps -- a somewhat embarrassing feature under the circumstances.

    Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland 1881

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