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oeillade

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oeillade [ɜːˈjɑːd (French) œjad]
n
Literary an amorous or suggestive glance; ogle
[from French, from oeil eye, from Latin oculus + -ade as in fusillade]


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Beatrix deploys her Dutch coquetry upon her beatifically schnappsed husband by clapping his shoulder with her weighty hand and casting him an oeillade beneath her thick brows.
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This is by no means a murderous fly, but the dark beauty spot just under the eye so dear to French court ladies of the rococo epoch, whose oeillades assassines ("provocative glances") broke the heart of many a male courtier.
 
 
 
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