sloe-eyed

sloe-eyed

English

Adjective

sloe-eyed (not comparable)

1. Having dark eyes.
   • 1903, Joseph Conrad and F. M. Hueffer, "Romance":

     Macdonald's wife was an immensely stout, raven-haired, sloe-eyed, talkative body, the most motherly woman I have ever known.

   • 1917, William MacLeod Raine, The Sheriff's Son, ch. 19:

     Royal Beaudry carried about with him in his work on the Lazy Double D persistent memories of the sloe-eyed gypsy.

   • 1918, Zane Grey, The U. P. Trail, ch. 35:

     [S]warthy, sloe-eyed Mexicans, with huge sombreros on their knees, lolled in the shade of a tree.

Translations

having dark eyes

Russian: черногла́зый (ru) m (černoglázyj)