Word of the Day: kohl

kohl (n)

A cosmetic used to darken the eyelids. (Think Cleopatra or Jack Sparrow, not a former German chancellor)

"A girl like Claudia could make Eagle Scouts steal from their grandmothers. She wore makeup with the brand name Urban Decay. She had bottle red hair and kohl-deepened eyes, and she was as seductive as Spanish fly on Cody's defenseless adolescent libido."
--Susan Wiggs, The You I Never Knew

Hmmm, "Urban Decay". You can see the photos I've contributed to the Urban Decay group on Flickr here. Pretty pictures of ugly things.

(Kohl, by the way, is one of the words that the late David Foster Wallace circled in his dictionary.)