sloe-eyed

American  

[sloh-ahyd] / ˈsloʊˌaɪd /

adjective

1. having very dark eyes; dark-eyed.

2. having slanted eyes.

---

sloe-eyed British  

adjective

1. having dark slanted or almond-shaped eyes

---

Etymology

Origin of sloe-eyed

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

Black sable one day, next day it goes into hock, but I'm here Top billing Monday, Tuesday, you're touring in stock, but I'm here First you're another sloe-eyed vamp Then someone's mother, then you're camp Then you career from career to career I'm almost through my memoirs, and I'm here.

From Salon

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

“Surfing in Peru had long been an aristocratic boys-only club. Demographic change had already begun filtering into Latin America’s beaches and lineups, but Mulanovich - compact and sloe-eyed, with a low, fast, tightly coiled wave-riding style - greatly accelerated the process,” the Encyclopedia of Surfing says.

From Washington Times

The eater, the preparer, even the sloe-eyed server at Gjelina.

From Salon

He’s a sloe-eyed, smoky charmer posing as a luxury car dealer; she’s a bodacious daddy’s girl with the kind of choppy non-hairstyle only the very young and beautiful can get away with.

From New York Times