Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
Doe-eyed/gazelle-eyed
Greek translation:
Ελαφίσια μάτια
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Hellinas
Jun 30, 2016 14:32
7 yrs ago
English term
Doe-eyed/gazelle-eyed
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Idioms / Maxims / Sayings
idiom
'Her eyes were deep and lustrous, like the eyes of a gazelle, and with one flutter of her eyelashes she could have reduced the world to ruins'.
This quotation (from Stephen Payne's Carrying the Torch - a book I love) would be an excellent exercise for one of your experts to put their hand to. It could be a description of Audrey Hepburn. What is the Greek for the above term or a paraphrase thereof, since gazelle eyes are the beautiful characteristic of one who has soft lustrous & expressive eyes, like the paradise girls or houris.
This quotation (from Stephen Payne's Carrying the Torch - a book I love) would be an excellent exercise for one of your experts to put their hand to. It could be a description of Audrey Hepburn. What is the Greek for the above term or a paraphrase thereof, since gazelle eyes are the beautiful characteristic of one who has soft lustrous & expressive eyes, like the paradise girls or houris.
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Lina Efthimiadou
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Lina Efthimiadou
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Ελαφίσια μάτια
We use the phrase "ελαφίσια μάτια" meaning the eyes of a deer to express admiration for a woman who has beautiful, big, expressive and innocent eyes.
Example sentence:
Ανεπανάληπτα, ελαφίσια μάτια, που μου προκαλούν ζαλάδα
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