groucho glasses

{{Short description|Novelty glasses with a nose, moustache, and eyebrows}}

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Groucho glasses (also known as the beaglepuss{{cite book |last1=Buhle |first1=Paul |title=Jews and American Popular Culture: Sports, leisure, and lifestyle |date=2007 |publisher=Praeger Publishers |isbn=978-0-275-98796-1 |page=153 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O73WAAAAMAAJ |language=en}}) are a humorous novelty disguise which function as a caricature of the stage makeup used by the comedian Groucho Marx in his movies and vaudeville performances. They typically consist of black frames without lenses (either round or horn-rimmed) with attached features including bushy eyebrows, a large plastic nose, bushy moustache, and sometimes a plastic cigar.

Considered one of the most iconic and widely used of all novelty items in the world, Groucho glasses were marketed as early as the 1940s{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/06/18/reviews/000618.18giddent.html|first=Gary|last=Giddins|title=There Ain't No Sanity Claus|work=The New York Times|date=18 June 2000|access-date=1 November 2020}} and are instantly recognizable to people throughout the world.{{Cite book| last =Giddins | first =Gary | title =The New York Times Book Reviews 2000, volume 1 | publisher =Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers | year =2001 | isbn =1579580580}} "The most enduring mask of the 20th century—likely to take their place alongside Comedy and Tragedy or Pulcinella and Pierrot..." The glasses are often used as a shorthand for slapstick{{Cite journal|url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/articles/199909/the-effect-groucho-marx-glasses-depression|first=Steven R.|last=Pritzker|title=The Effect of Groucho Marx Glasses on Depression|journal=Psychology Today|date=1 September 1999|publisher=Sussex Publishers|access-date=1 November 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130419093838/http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-19990901-000042.html|archive-date=19 April 2013}} and are depicted in the Disguised Face (🥸) emoji.{{cite web |last1=Hy |first1=Mo |title=Proposal for New Emoji: Disguised Face |date=18 July 2018 |url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18311-disguised-face-emoji.pdf |website=Unicode |access-date=19 January 2022}}{{cite web |title=Disguised Face |url=https://emojipedia.org/disguised-face/ |website=Emojipedia |access-date=18 January 2022}}