collyrium
Americannoun
PLURAL
collyria, collyriumsnoun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of collyrium
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin < Greek kollȳ́rion eye salve
Example Sentences
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Ms Jaya, who holds a masters degree in art, paints her body with collyrium, a type of dark eye shadow, whenever she steps out of her home studio.
From BBC
Those fibers helped the tablets hold their round, loaf-like shape, which may be the key to the medication's use: the Greek word meaning “small round loaves” also inspired the word collyrium, or eye-wash.
From Scientific American
And they note that the Latin word for eyewash, collyrium, derives from a Greek word meaning "small round loaves."
From Science Magazine
Her eyes are elongated just when she grows up: or possibly the poet means that she then first artificially extends their length with a line of collyrium.
From Project Gutenberg
The blindness of pride has been removed from my eyes through the collyrium of your grace now, and true knowledge has dawned on me.
From Project Gutenberg
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