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modesty glasses en · NOUN
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(plural, plural-only, rare) Glasses with blurry lenses used by some Orthodox Jews to obscure their vision of immodestly dressed women.
Apparently modesty glasses haven’t yet made it to Los Angeles, and so women are taking long skirts, long-sleeved shirts, and high necklines to the next level of unfashionable.
2013 July 25, Monica Osborne, “‘Frumpification’ of Orthodox Fashion”, in The Forward: