Eyebrow

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Eyebrow

In print marketing, a small bit of text placed over the main headline of an advertisement. For example, an eyebrow may read "Local Opera Presents" over the larger headline, "FIGARO."

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Its dark eyestripe, bright supercilium and dark edged crown made it look more like a red-eyed vireo than an old world warbler, but it was a stunning sight.

Travel: On country matters

In this particular episode, Giton was drawing on the ambiguity of vis, which means that the phrase may also be translated as simply "nothing happened." Giton makes his partner jealous only to be desired by him even more intensely; by being admired he will obtain virtually everything (postquam se amari sensit, supercilium altius sustulit; 91,7).

Roman fever: Petronius' Satyricon and Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar

(93) Alciato, 1548, hh [7v]: "ne scilicet tetricae istius severaeque legalis disciplinae supercilium imminuerem." See note 16 above.

Alciato and the grammarians: the law and the humanities in the Parergon iuris libri duodecim *