Meanings
alternative under-eye
- not comparableUnder the eye.
Lips that have thinned over time may cause a person to appear irritable or tense, a naturally elevated brow may suggest judgment or skepticism, and undereye shadows can make a person appear weary and burdened.
2007 August 2, Laurel Naversen Geraghty, “I Am Not a Crab: When Wrinkles Lie”, in New York Times
plural undereyes · alternative under-eye
- The area of skin immediately under the eye.
In some vague corner of his mind, he remembered her forgetfulness, the weary smudges of blue that bruised her undereyes when the sky was still pale with white light from the sun […]
2013, Lindsay Evelyn Hamilton, Lily Whites of Steel, page 374
Origin
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