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eyelash

 noun
     
Related topics: Human
eye‧lash [countable]
1HBH one of the small hairs that grow along the edge of your eyelids
2

flutter your eyelashes

HBH if a woman flutters her eyelashes, she moves them up and down very quickly, in order to look sexually attractive
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