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Definition of Hawknose
1. a large, curved nose [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hawknose
Literary usage of Hawknose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1879)
"I want to see hawknose John." Kyle Wilbur got there about as soon as they did
... In fact, if hawknose John had lived in the old times, when his tribe was a ..."
2. The Laryngoscope by American Laryngological, Rhinological, and Otological Society (1901)
"... elevating the external nose and giving rise to the prominent hump or hawknose,
or of prolongation of the septum backward to the base of the skull; ..."
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