shutter shades

English

A girl wearing 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".

Noun

shutter shades pl (plural only)

1. A style of sunglasses which have frames containing horizontal slats as opposed to tinted lenses.
   • 2012, Alec Nevala-Lee, The Icon Thief‎^[1], Signet, →ISBN:

     "Never trust anything you read online," Tanya said, pushing up her shutter shades.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:shutter shades.

Synonyms

• Kanye glasses

Further reading

• shutter shades on Wikipedia.Wikipedia