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 Translation for 'eyebrows' from English to Italian
NOUN   an eyebrow | eyebrows
sopracciglia {f.pl}eyebrows
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Translation for 'eyebrows' from English to Italian

eyebrows
sopracciglia {f.pl}
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Usage Examples English
  • Eyebrows in the 1920s were very thin, resembling a straight line pointing downward toward the outside corner of the eye.
  • Children with this syndrome are often found to have long eyelashes, bushy eyebrows and synophrys (joined eyebrows).
  • Healey was satirised in the ITV series "Spitting Image", his caricature mainly focusing on his famous eyebrows, with the real Healey appearing in the twelfth episode of the programme's first series in 1984 briefly noting the show was late covering that year's European elections.
  • The Red Eyebrows (...) was one of the two major peasant rebellion movements against Wang Mang's short-lived Xin dynasty, the other being Lülin.
  • Bimatoprost 0.03% has been used to grow eyebrows.

  • The name come from Indonesian word "alis" which means "eyebrows".
  • The eyebrows play a big role in facial expression to the extent that they are called "the roof of the face".
  • The genius was believed to be associated with the forehead of each man, while goddess Juno, not the "juno" of every woman, was supposed to have under her jurisdiction the eyebrows of women or to be the tutelary goddess of the eyebrows of everybody, irrespective of one's sex.
  • Recent research, however, suggests eyebrows in humans developed as a means of communication and that this is their primary function.
  • The occipitofrontalis muscles can raise the eyebrows, either together or individually, forming expressions of surprise and quizzicality.

  • In a 2013 interview with "Allure", Clarke stated that her mother had rules when she was growing up: "Don't do drugs, don't have sex, and don't touch your eyebrows."
  • Many people use cosmetic treatments to cover the loss of the hair, such as applying artificial eyelashes, tattooing eyebrows/eyelashes, penciling in the eyebrows or using mascara to make the existing eyelashes look longer.
  • Cisgender men tend to have lower eyebrows relative to the position of their brow ridges when compared to cisgender women.
  • Giorgio Vasari's "Lives of Artists" describes the painting as having thick eyebrows; however, while this may mean that the eyebrows and lashes were accidentally removed, it could also mean that Vasari did not have first-hand knowledge of the work.
  • A unibrow (or jacco brow or monobrow; called synophrys in medicine) is a single eyebrow created when the two eyebrows meet in the middle above the bridge of the nose.

  • continued even into the latter portion of the Heian period; men in particular painted their faces white, blackened their teeth and redrew their eyebrows in its later years.
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