English

Aquiline

Adjective

aquiline ‎(comparative more aquiline, superlative most aquiline)

1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of eagles; resembling that of an eagle.
   • 1748, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random, Chapter 22,

     He was about the age of two-and-twenty, among the tallest of the middle size; had chestnut-coloured hair, which he wore tied up in a ribbon; a high polished forehead, a nose inclining to the aquiline, lively blue eyes, red pouting lips, teeth as white as snow, and a certain openness of countenance—but why need I describe any more particulars of his person?

   • 1791, Edmund Burke, Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, London: J. Dodsley, pp. 139-140,

     Think of a genius not born in every country or every time: a man gifted by Nature with a penetrating, aquiline eye; with a judgment prepared with the most extensive erudition; with an herculean robustness of mind, and nerves not to be broken with labour; a man who could spend twenty years in one pursuit.

   • 1903, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Empty House,” in The Return of Sherlock Holmes,

     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.

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 11 (iii),

     […] Wani, whose smooth sleekness had been part of his charm, seemed to Nick to grow leaner and ever more aquiline.

   Frank's aquiline nose jutted out from underneath his glasses.

Synonyms

• eaglelike

Translations

French

Adjective

aquiline

1. feminine singular of aquilin

Italian

Adjective

aquiline

1. feminine plural of aquilino

Latin

Adjective

aquilīne

1. vocative masculine singular of aquilīnus