The Emerald City and the Green Spectacles

From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The travelers must wear locked green spectacles to enter the city, a detail that foreshadows the Wizard's deception--the city only appears emerald because of the lenses.
Chapter 10

The Guardian of the Gates locks spectacles onto every visitor, 'by order of Oz himself.'

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Chapter 11

The dazzling green throne room; Dorothy meets the Wizard as a giant Head.

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