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shutter shades en · NOUN

Etymology

From the trademarked name of a brand of sunglasses created by Shutter Shades, Inc., in 2007. Similar louvered/slatted sunglasses which existed as early as the 1950s and were popular in the 1980s were known by other names, such as "Venetian blinders".

Meanings

  1. (plural, plural-only) A style of sunglasses which have frames containing horizontal slats as opposed to tinted lenses.
    • "Never trust anything you read online," Tanya said, pushing up her shutter shades. 2012, Alec Nevala-Lee, The Icon Thief, Signet, →ISBN:

Synonyms

Kanye glasses