eye-pit

English

Noun

eye-pit (plural eye-pits)

(now rare) The eye socket; the concave area of the face around each eye.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.12:
  His cheeke-bones raw, and eie-pits hollow grew, / And brawney armes had lost their knowen might […].

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