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eye-pit en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English eye-put, heyeput, eȝe-put, equivalent to eye + pit.

Meanings

1. (archaic) The eye socket; the concave area of the face around each eye.
   • His cheeke-bones raw, and eie-pits hollow grew, / And brawney armes had lost their knowen might […]. 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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