kohl

IPA: kˈoʊɫ

Root Word: Kohl

A surname from German.
A dark powder (usually powdered antimony) used as eye makeup, especially in Eastern countries; stibnite.

Examples of "kohl" in Sentences

She had dyed yellow hair and white powdered skin and black kohl drawn under and above her pale eyes.
It's true that beauty can be toxic, as was a characteristic of the lead-laden kohl eyeliner worn back then.
His arrowy glance discovers the "poudre de riz" on their blooming cheeks, -- the carmine on their lips, and the "kohl" on their eyelashes.
“To most Americans,” writes historian Kathy Peiss, “the painted woman was simply a prostitute who brazenly advertised her immoral profession through rouge and kohl.”
Antimony is still used for the purpose in Arabia and in Persia, but in Egypt the kohl is a root produced by burning either a kind of frankincense or the shells of almonds.
The children are some of the most beautiful children I have met, with big soulful eyes, tiny babies with black kohl around their eyes apparently in order to ward off evil spirits making them appear even more wide eyed.
She banished the "kohl" with which she had underlined her brilliant eyes, and strewed the violet powder to the four winds, as soon as she discovered that he preferred to stroke her full, firm cheeks when they were guiltless of powder.
Having brushed the front hair over her forehead, and cut it straight across, the energetic Zooloo next painted her eyebrows black with a substance called kohl, causing them to meet over her nose in the most approved form of Algerine elegance.