n. [ F., fr. L. spectaculum, fr. spectare to look at, to behold, v. intens. fr. specere. See Spy. ]
O, piteous spectacle? O, bloody times! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Poverty a spectacle is, as thinketh me,
Through which he may his very friends see. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
Shakespeare . . . needed not the spectacles of books to read nature. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
As spectacled she sits in chimney nook. Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]
Spectacled bear (Zool.),
Spectacled coot,
Spectacled duck
Spectacled eider (Zool.)
Spectacled goose (Zool.),
Spectacled snake (Zool.),