Russell says, “The Persian women blacken the inside of their eyelids with a powder made of black Kohol.”
“And others mix the Kohol’s jetty dye
To give that long, dark languish to the eye.”
Thomas Moore: Lalla Rookh, part i.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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