babies-in-the-eyes: the miniature reflection of himself which a person sees in the pupil of another's eye on looking closely into it. Our old poets make it an employment of lovers to look for them in each other's eyes. Sportively called by our ancestors a "little boy" or "baby", and made the subject of many amorous allusions.
(from The Word Museum by Jeffrey Kacirk)
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