heavy-lidded

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1. Having almost closed eyes.

   The wide mouth was folded tight together, the heavy-lidded eyes were firmly shut as though she defied the world to disturb her rest.

   2007, John Stephen Strange, The Chinese Jar Mystery

2. Having overhanging eaves that cast shadows upon its (perhaps recessed or small) windows?

   […] holds two thirds of the mediaeval stained glass in England rises above the heavy-lidded buildings and my heart soars.

   2013, Nick Asbury, White Hart Red Lion: The England of Shakespeare's Histories

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   On one end was West End Avenue, that long parade of heavy-lidded buildings from whose lobbies emerged old European ladies and gentleman in elegant clothes, peering up and down the avenue as though they had somewhere to go.

   2001, Thomas Beller, The Sleep-Over Artist, page 34

   […] are many of them, it looks less Norwegian or Arts and Crafts-y than ancient and Japanese, the sort of heavy-lidded building that Akira Kurosawa would have cast in one of his sweeping epics […]

   2006, Arthur J. Magida, Opening the Doors of Wonder: Reflections on Religious Rites ..., page 202