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▪ I. ‖ kohl1|ˈkoːh(ə)l, kəʊl|
Also 8 kohhel, 9 kochhel, kohol, cohol.
[Arab. kuḥ'l, koḥ'l; see alcohol.]
A powder used in the East to darken the eyelids, etc., usually consisting of finely powdered antimony.
1799W. G. Browne Trav. Africa, etc. xxi. 318 If any thing be applied in these flussioni..it is generally kôhhel (calx of tin mixed with sheep's fat). 1817Moore Lalla R., Veiled Proph. 11, Others mix the Kohol's jetty die, To give that long, dark languish to the eye. 1875Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims viii. 195 The cohol, the cosmetic by which pearls and eyebrows are indelibly stained black. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile viii. 215 Their eyes were blackened round with Kohl.
attrib.190019th Cent. Feb. 319 The Louvre possesses a beautiful Kohl pot.
Hence kohl v. trans., to darken with kohl. So kohled ppl. a.
1947Penguin New Writing XXIX. 10 Altogether the face..of an actor roughed and kohled. 1964Punch 26 Feb. 298/2 She had appeared..in her most glamorous sari..eyelids kohl-ed. 1971R. Dentry Encounter at Kharmel (1973) x. 183 Ten-year-old boy sopranos with kohl-ed eyes.
▪ II. kohl2
abbrev. of next.
1880Daily News 18 Oct. 3/1 No bright green leaf of beet or turnip, or paler tops of kohl or swede. |