引ひき眉まゆ

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.

• 平へい安あん時じ代だいの貴き族ぞくは引ひき眉まゆをしていた。

  Heian-period nobles had painted eyebrows.

• 引ひき眉まゆは、結けっ婚こんした女じょ性せいの風ふう習しゅうでもあった。

  Painted eyebrows were also a custom among married women.