eyelash

Definition

  • noun: any one of the hairs that grow along the top of the eyelid
  • noun: the fringe of hair edging the 'eyelid'
  • usually used in plural

Examples

  • She has beautiful dark 'eyelashes'. [='lashes']

  • She smiled and 'batted' her eyelashes at him.

  • He listened 'without batting an eyelash'.

Movie quotes

  • (..) I would have realized something was wrong, 'cause that sort of thing gives me the skeevies. thinking about the length of Ray Singh's eyelashes. while he was reading Abelard and Heloise, the most seriously tragic love story ever. So, have you kissed him yet? (..)
    2009 The Lovely Bones