gazer

Etymology

gaze + -er

noun

  1. One who gazes.
    Knots of gazers and gossips were collected in the churchyard, at the bridge, and at the spot where the hat and pumpkin had been found. 1820, Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
    I would observe, by the way, that it costs me nothing for curtains, for I have no gazers to shut out but the sun and moon, and I am willing that they should look in. 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, published 1910, pages 86–7
    Keen lemon-yellow hurts the eye in time as a prolonged and shrill trumpet-note the ear, and the gazer turns away to seek relief in blue or green. 1914, Wassily Kandinsky, chapter V, in M.T.H. Sadler, Houghton Mifflin, transl., The Art of Spiritual Harmony, page 49

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