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lynx-eyed

American  
[lingks-ahyd] / ˈlɪŋksˌaɪd /

adjective

  1. sharp-sighted.


lynx-eyed British  

adjective

  1. having keen sight

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of lynx-eyed

First recorded in 1590–1600

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In it, lynx-eyed Washington viewers can even catch a glimpse of D.C.’s most debonair collector, Mark Samuels Lasner, and a quick shot of the young Allan Stypeck, owner of Second Story Books.

From Washington Post May 5, 2020

Miscast as a morbidly jealous wife, Gertrude Lawrence manages to give her role a lynx-eyed dignity which is an excellent foil for the brittle vibrance of Miriam Hop kins.

From Time Magazine Archive

This time he once more has the able help of his original partner, lynx-eyed Myrna Loy, back in films after four years' absence.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are some handsomely photographed train wrecks, but except for Frank Faylen's lynx-eyed portrait of a killer, Whispering Smith is a conventional western in every detail.

From Time Magazine Archive

This, too, without ever once receiving a demand from the lynx-eyed custom officials, for the payment of either import or export duties upon it.

From Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century by Milan C. Edson

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