cat's eye
noun
any of certain gems having a chatoyant luster, especially chrysoberyl.
cat's eyes
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pluralof cat's eye.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
cat's-eyes
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pluralof cat's eye.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
cat's eyenounany of certain gems having a chatoyant luster, especially chrysoberyl.
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While the rear red light of the scooter was visible in the distance, it was not until the car was very close behind that the light stood out as being separate to the cat's eyes.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2025
Gazala observes that her benefactor’s “eyes are slanted under the folds of her brows, kohl-rimmed cat’s eyes in a dead-white face, powder in every fold and crack.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2025
To help sell Red’s character arc from foe to friend, the team chose to avoid making the irises humanlike and immediately relatable — they’re closer to a cat’s eyes.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2022
Nearby, a Grecian bust is caught, mid-scream; a fractal seems to turn; the cat’s eyes appear to widen.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2019
One of them grumbled, “Can’t see in the dark. Ain’t got cat’s eyes like you.”
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
Never before has there been such a phantasmagoria of shapes, sizes, colors and prices: python, polka-dotted and zebra frames, champagne, vermilion and espresso-colored lenses, asymmetric cat's-eyes and jewelry-bedizened sun helmets that cost thousands of dollars.
From Time Magazine Archive
We had them all: cat’s-eyes, aggies, dearies, milkies, steelies, glassies, onionskins.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
The jewelers are testing the lapis lazuli, the pearls, the corals, the topazes, the sapphires, the cat's-eyes, the rubies, the emeralds, and all the other kinds of gems.
From The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika by Arthur William Ryder
"These cat's-eyes," she said, "you will wear, and think of me and the judge who presents them."
From The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories by Owen Wister
There was a gnawing just under my new gold belt-buckle with the cat's-eyes on it, as if the cats had claws as well as eyes, and I remembered that it was ages since lunch.
From My Friend the Chauffeur by Frederic Lowenheim
