Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name)
5. equipment
6. [equipment by context]
7. personal equipment
8. [equipment for personal vision use]

Narrower term/s

• lorgnettes [NP]
• spectacles (eyeglasses)[+]
  • butterfly glasses
• sunglasses[+]
  • aviator sunglasses
• pince-nez
• monocles

Anotations

Scope note:

Devices to compensate for defective vision or to protect the eyes from light, dust, and the like, consisting usually of two lenses set in a frame that includes a nosepiece for resting on the bridge of the nose and which may also have two sidepieces extending over or around the ears.