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eyeliner

eyeliner

31 2.1
A dark line drawn along the edge of the eyelid to make the eyes look bigger
  • noun
  • /ˈaɪˌlaɪnər/
translation icon : delineador
  • Marsha put up Jan's hair and applied eyeliner and shadow to her eyes.
  • wear eyeliner
  • apply eyeliner
  • put on eyeliner

Examples

  • The house labs eyeliner is so good.

  • So OK, let's go ahead and apply our eyeliner now.

  • And this will be our eyeliner because it's black.

  • What do you think of my eyeliner?

    Dad (2019)

  • We're putting black waterline eyeliner on our eyes.

  • And he's going in with a black eyeliner as a base.

  • And I'm going to start my eyeliner on my lower lash line.

  • Got herself all dolled up for him she did, with blusher, eyeliner, the lot.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • I'm using this mega last eyeliner in blackest black.

  • She applied a thin line of eyeliner along her eyelids to enhance her eyes.

Synonyms

kohl
vseyeliner
32 9.2

A black powder used around the eyes as makeup

is a general cosmetic applied along eyelid edges to define the eyes

How Bold

wing
5 3.7
eyeliner
31 2.1
pencil
22 5.1

Surface Forms

eyeliner singular
eyeliners plural

Morphology

eyeliner = eye + liner (transparent) = eye + liner

A clear compound of 'eye' + 'liner'; learners who know these components can infer a cosmetic used to line the eye.

Etymology

Eyeliner comes from the simple parts eye and liner; a liner is something that makes a 'line', like lipliner. So eyeliner is a product used to draw a 'line' along the edge of the eye to define the eye and make it stand out.