shutter shades

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A style of sunglasses which have frames containing horizontal slats as opposed to tinted lenses.

Word forms

shutter shades

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".

Synonyms

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