英语词汇“buttonhole eye”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. Similative, with the sense ‘resembling or suggestive of a buttonhole, esp. in being small, narrow, or slit-like’, as buttonhole eye, buttonhole mouth, etc.Considered offensive when used to indicate racial characteristics.

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1838 New Monthly Mag. June 247 A button-hole mouth to be found at the beauty-mongers.

1852 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 341/2 The people of Tibet are of the great Mongolian family, and exhibit its characters..—platter face, with prominent cheek-bones, button-hole eyes.

1859 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 14 Apr. in French & Ital. Notebks. (1980) vi. 517 The eyes are well opened, most unlike the button-hole lids of the de Medici [statue].

1907 J. F. Fraser Red Russia xxi. 266 If your acquaintance with the East is casual, you might mutter ‘Japanese’—there are the same ugly faces, coffee complexions, buttonhole eyes. These are Tartars, Cossacks, Kalmuks, Kirghees.

1920 N.Y. Times 12 Sept. iii. 7/5 The New Yorker, so open..heretofore..now wears..the buttonhole eye when he greets the friend who has ‘just dropped in to say hullo’.

1962 J. Lauritzen Everlasting Fire xii. 150 ‘Hey-y-y-y!’ She breathed out slowly through round, red, buttonhole lips.

2013 C. McCarry Shanghai Factor xiii. 89 A stocky, plain young woman with china-doll bangs and buttonhole eyes..introduced herself as Sun Huan.

单词	buttonhole eye
释义	> as lemmas buttonhole eye b. Similative, with the sense ‘resembling or suggestive of a buttonhole, esp. in being small, narrow, or slit-like’, as buttonhole eye, buttonhole mouth, etc.Considered offensive when used to indicate racial characteristics. ΚΠ 1838 New Monthly Mag. June 247 A button-hole mouth to be found at the beauty-mongers. 1852 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 341/2 The people of Tibet are of the great Mongolian family, and exhibit its characters..—platter face, with prominent cheek-bones, button-hole eyes. 1859 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 14 Apr. in French & Ital. Notebks. (1980) vi. 517 The eyes are well opened, most unlike the button-hole lids of the de Medici [statue]. 1907 J. F. Fraser Red Russia xxi. 266 If your acquaintance with the East is casual, you might mutter ‘Japanese’—there are the same ugly faces, coffee complexions, buttonhole eyes. These are Tartars, Cossacks, Kalmuks, Kirghees. 1920 N.Y. Times 12 Sept. iii. 7/5 The New Yorker, so open..heretofore..now wears..the buttonhole eye when he greets the friend who has ‘just dropped in to say hullo’. 1962 J. Lauritzen Everlasting Fire xii. 150 ‘Hey-y-y-y!’ She breathed out slowly through round, red, buttonhole lips. 2013 C. McCarry Shanghai Factor xiii. 89 A stocky, plain young woman with china-doll bangs and buttonhole eyes..introduced herself as Sun Huan. extracted from buttonholen. < as lemmas
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