Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having almond-shaped eyes, as the Chinese and others of the Mongolian race.
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- adjective having almond-shaped eyes
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Examples
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A bulbous-brained, almond-eyed sci-fi humanoid with male and female attributes surveys the teeming scene.
An Illustrative Career Depicting Dystopias Sidney Lawrence 2011
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Maybe even more than a stuffed head of the abominable snowman or the cupacabra or an almond-eyed alien.
Neil Gaiman owns a Jackalope frankwu 2009
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The man behind the counter was small and dour with the flat, almond-eyed features of the Mongols who thundered out of Asia in the thirteenth century.
Venom Joan Brady 2010
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And the most striking (and very beautiful) image in the show depicts the 56-year-old Shah 'Abbas caressing a beardless, round-cheeked, almond-eyed pageboy, who is holding an exaggeratedly phallic wine flask between his knees.
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She was a stern and prickly beauty: Slavic-boned and almond-eyed, a watchful expression of sex and hauteur residing simultaneously, as in the face of a cat.
The Brazilian Sphinx Moore, Lorrie 2009
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But when I went out on another night, an ache came into my chest when the almond-eyed kudus fell, and this time when I stroked them I felt no illicit thrill, only the ghastly, cold stiffness creeping across their silken fur.
Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007
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On this side of the aisle all is life; just across the way, the almond-eyed Celestials have learned little since the days of Confucius.
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005
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But when I went out on another night, an ache came into my chest when the almond-eyed kudus fell, and this time when I stroked them I felt no illicit thrill, only the ghastly, cold stiffness creeping across their silken fur.
Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007
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But he had never been able to talk to chocolate-haired, almond-eyed Samantha; in fact, he had never been able to talk near or around chocolate-haired, almond-eyed Samantha.
The Shadow Thieves Anne Ursu 2006
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But he had never been able to talk to chocolate-haired, almond-eyed Samantha; in fact, he had never been able to talk near or around chocolate-haired, almond-eyed Samantha.
The Shadow Thieves Anne Ursu 2006
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