crowes feet

Middle English

Noun

crowes feet pl (plural only)

  1. crow's feet, small wrinkles in the corner of an eye, emblematic of aging.
    • c. 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde‎, volume two:
      So longe mote ye live, and alle proude,/Til crowes feet be growe under your eye
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