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(anatomy, of a fold of skin) That partially covers the inner angle of the eye.
1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 215:
Along the dimming shore of broken fence and rubble and over the sparse colonies of jakelike dwellings a new curse falling, a plague of bats, small basilisks pugnosed with epicanthic eyes and upreared dogs' ears filled with hair and bellies filled with agony.
