Words similar to eyelid
Example sentences for: eyelid
How can you use “eyelid” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
eyebrow eyelid eyelash
And cilium , which meant upper eyelid to Pliny the Elder, acquired in later centuries the senses of eyebrow, eyelid, and eyelash.
For eyelid, several Scandinavian languages have words ending with the element lok , etc. (lock, cover, lid), for example, Swedish ögonlock , Danish øjenlåg , Norwegian øyelokk , Faroese eygnalok .
Welsh has a word for brow ( ael ) and a word for lid ( amrant ), but, although there is an expression meaning eyelash, it is a phrase: blew yr amrant (hair of the eyelid, reminiscent of Lat palpebrārum pilus ).
Latin had terms for eyebrow and eyelid that were the sources of the French ones (Lat supercilium and palebra ), but eyelash evidently caused trouble.
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