Raymond ChandlerA check girl in peach-bloom Chinese pajamas came over to take my hat and disapprove of my clothes. She had eyes like strange sins.
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In the book, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield says: "She had eyes like strange sins. Like a Chinese woman's eyes." In response to a Chinese woman in a peach-bloom Chinese pajama taking his hat and disapproving of his clothes, he says that she has eyes like strange sins. A sin is an act of wrongdoing or immorality. "Chinese" is an ethnic group and "peach-bloom Chinese pajamas" is referencing the peach flower pattern of the traditional Chinese pajamas.
Source: The High Window
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