Aquiline meaning

Adjective: aquiline

Pronunciation: (ak-wu,lIn)

Aquiline meaning: Curved down like an eagle’s beak.

Synonyms: hooked

Quotations: John Hurt – I was keen on sports-that’s how my nose got this way. It’s not actually broken; the nose was just pushed up a little bit and moved over. It’s an aquiline nose, quite Irish.

Anton Chekhov – Ordinary hypocrites pretend to be doves; political and literary hypocrites pretend to be eagles. But don’t be disconcerted by their aquiline appearance. They are not eagles, but rats or dogs.

Terry Pratchett  – As a boy I had a clear image of the Almighty, he had a tail coat and pinstriped trousers, black, slicked-down hair and an aquiline nose. On the whole, I was probably a rather strange child, and I wonder what my life might have been like if I’d met a decent theologian when I was nine.

Johann Wolfgang – In this world one is seldom reduced to make a selection between two alternatives. There are as many varieties of conduct and opinion as there are turns of feature between an aquiline nose and a flat one.

Sample sentences:

1. When you take the unique shape of Swarovski’s aquiline crustal beads and drill them on top, you have an amazingly striking pendant.
2. Aquiline nose is found among people from nearly every area of the world.
3. He had an eagle eye, an aquiline nose and an eagle heart.
4. He had an aquiline nose and pointed chin.
5. That’s a euphemism for an aquiline nose. The challenge is to break people’s perceptions of me.