aquiline nose

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Noun

aquiline nose (plural aquiline noses)

  1. A nose with a hooked, bent shape.
    Synonyms: hooknose, Roman nose
    • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Francesca Carrara. , volume I, London: Richard Bentley, , (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 217:
      She was delicately fair, with an aquiline nose, and a mouth the size of which was forgotten in its white teeth and pleasant smile. She wore a peruke of very fair golden hair; and herein was shown the lurking spirit of female vanity: her own tresses had been very beautiful;...

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