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eyelash (n.)[eyelash 词源字典]: 1752, from eye (n.) + lash (n.). Related: Eyelashes.[eyelash etymology, eyelash origin, 英语词源]
madarosis (n.): "loss of the eyelashes," 1690s, medical Latin, from Greek madarosis "baldness." Related: Madarotic.
mascara (n.): cosmetic for coloring eyelashes, 1883, mascaro (modern form from 1922), from Spanish mascara "a stain, a mask," from same source as Italian maschera "mask" (see mask (v.)).
sandman (n.): bringer of sleep in nursery lore, 1861, from sand (n.) in reference to hard grains found in the eyelashes on waking; first attested in a translation from the Norwegian of Andersen (his Ole Lukoie "Ole Shut-eye," about a being who makes children sleepy, came out 1842), and perhaps partly from German Sandmann. More common in U.S.; dustman with the same sense is attested from 1821.