Spectacle /(?)/

Spec·ta·cle

Spectacle

n.
  1. Something exhibited to view; usually, something presented to view as extraordinary, or as unusual and worthy of special notice; a remarkable or noteworthy sight; a show; a pageant; a gazingstock.
    O, piteous spectacle? O, bloody times!
  2. A spy-glass; a looking-glass. [Obs.]
    Poverty a spectacle is, as thinketh me, Through which he may his very friends see.
  3. An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light.
  4. Fig.: An aid to the intellectual sight.
    Shakespeare . . . needed not the spectacles of books to read nature.