2014-03-13

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2014-03-13 07:29 am

oeillade

oeillade (uh(r)-YAHD) - n., an amorous or suggestive glance, ogle.


Pretty much only literary use nowadays. If you want help with the pronunciation, it's spelled eliad in King Lear -- for it does indeed date back to Shakespeare's time: adopted in the 1590s from Middle French œillade, from oeil, eye, from Latin oculus, from the same PIE root as English eye.

---L.