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Definition of Aquiline
1. Adjective. Curved down like an eagle's beak.
Definition of Aquiline
1. a. Belonging to or like an eagle.
Definition of Aquiline
1. Adjective. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of eagles. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aquiline
1. curving like an eagle's beak [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aquiline
Literary usage of Aquiline
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"The nose, at roots broad, at nostrils full, yet fine and even delicate in shape,
was a well-moulded Roman, approaching the aquiline in form. ..."
2. The History of the Virginia Federal Convention of 1788 by Hugh Blair Grigsby (1890)
"... and we gather from that capacious and intellectual brow, shaded by the fresh
auburn hair of youth, those expressive blue eyes, that aquiline nose, ..."
3. Handbook of the Roman Law by Ferdinand Mackeldey, Moses Aaron Dropsie (1883)
"... aquiline, competes in such a manner with the actions on these relations that
the injured party has the election which of these actions ho will institute ..."
4. ... The Native Races: Of the Pacific States by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886)
"... >th of Roman and aquiline type ; color, a light copper, perhaps a shade darker
than that of the ..."
5. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"aquiline, like an eagle. (F. — L.) 1'. aquilin ; lience nez aquilin, ' a nose
like an eagle;' Cot. ..."
6. Satanstoe; or, The Littlepage manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper (1856)
"... action. being but faintly portrayed in his face and form, while their nobler
and finer qualities came out in strong relief. His nose was almost aquiline ..."
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