Scissors-glasses
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thumb|right|First French Empire|French Empire gilt scissors-glasses c. 1805 thumb|right|upright|The Glasses Apostle by Conrad von Soest (1403)
Scissors-glasses (or binocles-ciseaux) are eyeglasses, normally used to correct distance vision, mounted on scissoring stems rather than on temple stems as modern eyeglasses are.
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