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(pl. noun) - Black eyes. Ebony optics albonized, black eyes painted white, an art much practised by pugilists. Pugilists' cant.
--Ducange Anglicus's Vulgar Tongue: Two Glossaries of Slang, Cant, and Flash Words and Phrases, 1857
January 15, 2018