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eye-pits

eye-pits is the plural of eye-pit.

Meaning of eye-pit

Noun

eye-pit (plural eye-pits)

  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

Questions about eye-pits

What is eye-pits the plural of?
Eye-pits is the plural of eye-pit.

Words near eye-pits in the dictionary

  1. eye-openers
  2. eye-opening
  3. eye-piece
  4. eye-pieces
  5. eye-pit
  6. eye-pits
  7. eye-popper
  8. eye-poppers
  9. eye-popping
  10. eye-poppingly
  11. Eye-Q

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