 |  |  | | | Word of the Day for Sunday, December 29, 2013 oeillade \œ-YAD\, noun: an amorous glance; ogle. "Please?" Significant pause and oeillade. Eugene thought of his hopes with Rapunzel, of badly wanting to start a clean slate, baleful of all the miseries Laura had caused whenever they had resumed even a friendship...
-- Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic, or, The Sexual Intellectual, 2007 Another coarse laugh, and another oeillade to the Princesses, showed me clearly enough how the Queen construed my relationship to Anne of England.
-- Louis Auchincloss, Exit Lady Masham, 1983 Oeillade entered English in the late 1500s from the French oeillide, and ultimately comes from the Latin ocuclus meaning "eye." Read the full entry | See synonyms | Comment on today's word | Suggest tomorrow's word Yesterday's word | Previous words | Help |
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