sloe-eyed
Americanadjective
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having very dark eyes; dark-eyed.
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having slanted eyes.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of sloe-eyed
First recorded in 1865–70
Example Sentences
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We went through a security gate, down a winding road lined with stumpy palm trees—remnants of a bygone Fellowship experiment—then past a field of idle, sloe-eyed camels.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 18, 2019
As a young man, he had a kind of Michael Corleone Before the Fall look, sloe-eyed, dark, a little hunched, but high courtesy and verbal fluency were his charm.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2016
Dark and sloe-eyed, “she epitomized the perfect beauty,” he said.
From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2011
He is known to have "interesting" features – sloe-eyed and snub-nosed, with a sort of startled-meerkat-meets-a-Magimix look about him – but today he is also pasty-faced, with bottle auburn hair and a nasty, shiny cream shirt.
From The Guardian • Jul. 16, 2010
She still imagined kissing him, sloe-eyed and thick-lipped Odein.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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