aquiline

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The features were marked and aquiline, as was common to those of Norman blood.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of an eagle.
  2. adjective Curved or hooked like an eagle's beak: an aquiline nose.

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  • He had a countenance remarkably steady; his nose was aquiline, his chin projecting; his forehead large and high, and his eyes black and piercing. —  The Life of Francis Marion
  • She did not doubt that his face still had its aquiline, aristocratic beauty. —  Mary Balogh - Unforgiven
  • His nose was slightly aquiline, his face long and rather full; his eyes of a clear blue, with sharply defined eyebrows—seamen's eyes, which get an unmistakable light in them from long staring into the sea distances. —  Christopher Columbus, entire
  • Her nose was aquiline, her mouth small, and full of sweet expression; and in the centre of her chin was a dimple which she kept carefully marked with a blue puncture. —  The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
  • His nose was aquiline, his cheek-bones prominent. —  For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War
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  1. Latin aquilīnus, from aquila, eagle.

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  1. = French aquilin, from Latin aquilinus, pertaining to an eagle, from aquila, an eagle: see Aquila.
 

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