THE FIRST WORD

crow's feet

PRONUNCIATION:

(KROHZ feet) 

MEANING:

noun: Wrinkles in the skin around the outer corners of the eyes.

ETYMOLOGY:

From their supposed resemblance to a crow's feet. Earliest documented use: around 1374. Another term coined after a bird's feet: pedigree.

USAGE:

"He stares at himself in the mirror, the curls now grey, the crow's feet deepening like grooves worked into wood."
C.B. Forrest; The Devil's Dust; Dundurn; 2012.