(historical, usually, in the plural) A coin placed on the eyelid of a deceased person to keep the eye closed.
Afterwards the other seemed to die too, the breath leaving his body, the blood ebbing from his cheek, until his enemy came and stood one day looking down upon him, while he looked back from half-closed eyes, upon which they had already p…
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(UK, World War I, numismatics, informal) The memorial plaque, a circular bronze plaque presented to the next of kin of British Empire personnel killed in World War I.
His hands fumbled, and his eyelids suddenly felt as if someone had weighed them down with death pennies.
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