kohl

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun a cosmetic preparation used by women in Egypt and Arabia to darken the edges of their eyelids

From Arabic كُحْل (kuḥl, “antimony; kohl, stibnite (powdered antimony)”). Doublet of alcohol and alcool.

Nohl, Pohl, and Kohl[1] and others of their kidney to infinity! — Ecce Homo: Complete Works, Volume Seventeen, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Coxe, Atkinson, Kohl, and various others, have given elaborate accounts of it; yet why despair of presenting, in a homely way, some general idea of it, such as one might gather in the course of an afternoon's ramble? — The Land of Thor, J. Ross (John Ross) Browne
The following account is abridged from Mr. Kohl's description of those Asiatic horses, which are bred in the steppes, and are private property, although he calls them quite wild.--"Only in the heart of Tartary can the horse be found perfectly in a wild state. — Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals, R., Mrs. Lee

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