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feast one's eyes on
feast one's eyes on
Be delighted or gratified by the sight of, as in I'm feasting my eyes on this new sculpture-it's wonderful. This metaphoric expression may have been originated by Shakespeare, who used it in Sonnet 47: "With my love's picture then my eye doth feast."
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
| Rainbow | | RAYN-bo | English (Rare) |
| Friedrich | | FREED-rikh | German |
| Ibb | | - | Medieval English |
| Duha | | - | Arabic |
| Tjeerd | | TYAY:RT (Dutch) | Frisian, Dutch |
| Kilian | | KEE-lee-ahn (German) | German, Irish, French |