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eyelash
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
eyelash
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
false teeth/hair/eyelashes etc
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
false
▪ Everybody tried to take something - a scrap of clothing, a lock of hair, a false eyelash, a brooch.
▪ Anti-fog goggles are recommended for embarrassing facial hair or false eyelashes.
▪ The model came in with the cups of tea, still glowering darkly at Paula from beneath her fringe of false eyelashes.
▪ Bleached hair, false eyelashes and fake nails are old-hat, according to the latest health and beauty survey.
▪ Apply false eyelashes and really catch some one's eye!
▪ Her hair, slightly shorter than his, earrings, make-up and false eyelashes are all perfectly in place.
long
▪ She looked down at him, at the dark, even features, the long eyelashes and the luxuriant black hair.
▪ I first saw him when he was about eight, a child with a beautiful face and long, black eyelashes.
▪ His face was delicate, almost girlish, with long eyelashes and large brown eyes.
▪ He had beautiful eyes and the longest eyelashes of any boy in class.
▪ Like brilliant sapphires, they shone vividly under long, dark eyelashes and gently curving eyebrows.
▪ At the same time it was like a little schoolgirl learning to draw pretty people, with cupid mouths and long eyelashes.
▪ Tears shook on the ends of his long straight eyelashes.
▪ I saw the long shadows my eyelashes cast on my cheek.
■ VERB
flutter
▪ I began to flutter my eyelashes in a rather exaggerated way.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bat your eyes/eyelashes
flutter your eyelashes (at sb)
▪ I began to flutter my eyelashes in a rather exaggerated way.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Brittany, the blond cheerleader, has a vacant stare and huge eyelashes.
▪ His hair was shiny, his arms tanned, his eyelashes thick and long.
▪ If Claire had flicked an eyelash at him, Harvey would never have come near them again.
▪ She looked down at him, at the dark, even features, the long eyelashes and the luxuriant black hair.
▪ She was missing clumps of hair, eyelashes, eyebrows.
▪ The child was sound asleep now, his tiny eyelashes resting on rounded cheeks.
▪ The eyebrows and eyelashes were drawn in an then very pale washes were put on, the paint smooth and even.
▪ The moon was bright and it lit his blue eyes and his eyelashes shadowed his cheeks.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eyelash

Eyelash \Eye"lash`\, n.

  1. The fringe of hair that edges the eyelid; -- usually in the pl.

  2. A hair of the fringe on the edge of the eyelid.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
eyelash

1752, from eye (n.) + lash (n.). Related: Eyelashes.

Wiktionary
eyelash

alt. One of the hairs which grow along the edge of eyelids. n. One of the hairs which grow along the edge of eyelids.

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WordNet
eyelash

n. any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids [syn: lash, cilium]

Wikipedia
Eyelash

An eyelash or simply lash is one of the hairs that grows at the edge of the eyelid. Eyelashes protect the eye from debris and perform some of the same function as whiskers do on a cat or a mouse in the sense that they are sensitive to being touched, thus providing a warning that an object (such as an insect) is near the eye (which then closes reflexively).

The Ancient Greek word for eyelash is βλέφαρον (transliterated as blepharon), which is seen as a root in biological terms like Blephara and Katoblephara.

Eyelash (disambiguation)

An eyelash is a hair on the eyelid.

Eyelash may also refer to:

  • Eyelash boa, a boa species
  • Eyelash Gecko, a gecko species
  • Eyelash cup, a species of fungus
  • Eyelash mite, a parasite
  • Eyelash viper, a type of snake
  • Eyelash yarn, a type of yarn
  • Eyelashes (One Piece), a character from One Piece
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Usage examples of "eyelash".

On his other side, the vivacious Crania, now a lady to Queen Gruach, met with no better success as she fluttered her long eyelashes and smiled and tried to flirt with Fergus.

Laylah in a small room at the top of the stairs, sitting in a wooden crib from the fifties, the pre-Consumer Safety kind with wooden slats and toxic decoupages of pastel animals with lunatic grins and silky eyelashes.

For a moment I thought that I was perhaps experiencing sunlight as it was being refracted by my eyelashes.

Her hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes were the colour of pale gold, fairer almost than her skin, which was extremely delicate.

The nurses lucky enough to work on the orthopaedic wards or in theatre bought new lipsticks, made play with their eyelashes and had their hair done far more often than usual, going to meet him in corridors or on the stairs by deliberate accident, but they were forced to admit not one of them had struck even the smallest spark of interest in him.

Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes sat as still as they could in their little chairs by the fire and never winked an eyelash.

Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes were so still they did not wink an eyelash.

The children had not moved so much as an eyelash since we had left, and the bonzes had been able to do no more for them than to bathe them and move them to different positions at regular intervals.

In the last scene, when the Emperor of Tartary gets up into a cart and condescends to bless the united lovers by hovering over them with the Union Jack, his eyelashes are moistened with emotion.

Her short blond hair framed her face with gentle cuds and her long eyelashes splayed shadows on her cheeks.

She picked up a copy and stared at the cover, then spun around to flutter her eyelashes at me.

And she had a sort of mirage vision of herself, with eyelashes resting on her cheeks, lips a little parted, arms helpless at her sides.

Instead of the project of fatal woman who the doctor hoped, Julie Smith had the face of pilluelo charming, dominated by a pair of enormous eyes of thick eyelashes and blue a surprising one.

With the hair put under the cap and the face washed with exception of a touch of labial pencil, Julie was a wonder with skin of porcelain and eyes color sapphire framed by dark eyelashes and graceful eyebrows.

It had dark and heavy eyebrows, and account occurred suddenly of which also their eyelashes were thick and very dark.