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Collocations for spectacles - noun

ADJECTIVE

heavy
gold-rimmed, horn-rimmed, rimless, steel-rimmed, wire-framed, wire-rimmed
thick
tinted (BrE)
half-moon, round
reading

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… OF SPECTACLES

pair

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VERB + spectacles

have on, wear
put on
take off
push
She pushed her spectacles further up her nose and sighed.
adjust
look through, peer through
look over, peer over
He peered at the waiter over his spectacles.

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spectacles + VERB

be perched on sth, perch on sth
Her wire-framed spectacles were perched on the end of her nose.

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PREPOSITION

behind your spectacles, through your spectacles

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