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AQUILINE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Curved down like an eagle's beak
Synonyms:
aquiline; hooked
Classified under:
Similar:
crooked (having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned)
Context examples:
Two were dark, and had high aquiline noses, like the Count, and great dark, piercing eyes that seemed to be almost red when contrasted with the pale yellow moon.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
That he had been handsome might be easily judged from his high aquiline nose and clear-cut chin; but his features had been so distorted by the seams and scars of old wounds, and by the loss of one eye which had been torn from the socket, that there was little left to remind one of the dashing young knight who had been fifty years ago the fairest as well as the boldest of the English chivalry.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set aquiline features.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was a gaunt, aquiline face which was turned towards us, with piercing dark eyes, which lurked in deep hollows under overhung and tufted brows.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
His eyes flamed red with devilish passion; the great nostrils of the white aquiline nose opened wide and quivered at the edge; and the white sharp teeth, behind the full lips of the blood-dripping mouth, champed together like those of a wild beast.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Here too were the beautiful brunettes of the Gironde, with eyes which out-flashed their jewels, while beside them rode their blonde sisters of England, clear cut and aquiline, swathed in swans'-down and in ermine, for the air was biting though the sun was bright.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The waxen face; the high aquiline nose, on which the light fell in a thin white line; the parted red lips, with the sharp white teeth showing between; and the red eyes that I had seemed to see in the sunset on the windows of St. Mary's Church at Whitby.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
