AQUILINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aquiline mean? 

• AQUILINE (adjective)
  The adjective AQUILINE has 1 sense:

1. curved down like an eagle's beak

  Familiarity information: AQUILINE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AQUILINE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Curved down like an eagle's beak

Synonyms:

aquiline; hooked

Similar:

crooked (having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned)

 Context examples 

His dark, handsome, aquiline features were convulsed into a spasm of vindictive hatred, which had set his dead face in a terribly fiendish expression.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She bore upon her aquiline and emaciated face the traces of some recent tragedy.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She might have been five-and-thirty years of age, with aquiline nose, firm yet sensitive mouth, dark curving brows, and deep-set eyes which shone and sparkled with a shifting brilliancy.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His face was a strong—a very strong—aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils; with lofty domed forehead, and hair growing scantily round the temples but profusely elsewhere.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He was a remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached—evidently the man of whom I had heard.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here and there the pale, aquiline features of a sporting Corinthian recalled rather the Norman type, but in the main these stolid, heavy-jowled faces, belonging to men whose whole life was a battle, were the nearest suggestion which we have had in modern times of those fierce pirates and rovers from whose loins we have sprung.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For a handsome and not an unamiable-looking man, he repelled me exceedingly: there was no power in that smooth-skinned face of a full oval shape: no firmness in that aquiline nose and small cherry mouth; there was no thought on the low, even forehead; no command in that blank, brown eye.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Something morbid and significant attached to that sunburn, was Martin's thought as he returned to a study of the face, narrow, with high cheek-bones and cavernous hollows, and graced with as delicate and fine an aquiline nose as Martin had ever seen.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Only when all these precautions had been taken and tested did he turn his sunburned aquiline face to his guest.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holmes looked even thinner and keener than of old, but there was a dead-white tinge in his aquiline face which told me that his life recently had not been a healthy one.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)