noun
painted eyebrows; drawn eyebrows
Refers to the traditional Japanese practice of shaving off natural eyebrows and painting new ones higher on the forehead, historically associated with court nobles and later with married women.
平安時代の貴族は引き眉をしていた。
Heian-period nobles had painted eyebrows.
引き眉は、結婚した女性の風習でもあった。
Painted eyebrows were also a custom among married women.
眉墨 refers specifically to the black ink or cosmetic used for drawing eyebrows, while 引き眉 refers to the practice or the resulting painted eyebrows themselves.
Compound of 引き (hiki, 'pulling, drawing') + 眉 (mayu, 'eyebrow'), referring to the act of drawing on eyebrows.