Eyes that are large, bright, and innocent-looking, resembling those depicted in artistic representations of angels.
Compound of 'angel' plus 'eyes', popularized in the 1979 ABBA song 'Angel Eyes' which influenced how the phrase is understood as describing attractive, innocent eye characteristics.
ABBA's 1979 hit 'Angel Eyes' made this phrase iconic in pop culture, showing how a single song can cement how we describe human features—it transformed a poetic description into a specific aesthetic ideal.
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