Definition of "glass eye" []

• An artificial eye fashioned of glass. (noun)
• An eye whose iris is whitish, pale, or colorless. (noun)

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• "When I pulled to a stop at a traffic light I looked around for my reflection in the windows of buildings, my forty-dollar-trimmed hair, my tailored suit, my glass eye and sunglasses — near-perfection encased in a black BMW."
• "There were plenty of other people who lived lives just as eccentric as these: Monsieur Jules, the Roumanian, who had a glass eye and would not admit it, Furex the Limousin stonemason, Roucolle the miser — he died before my time, though — old Laurent the rag-merchant, who used to copy his signature from a slip of paper he carried in his pocket."