Aquiline means curved like an eagle's beak. An aquiline nose, aquiline features, aquiline profile.
It is used of noses and of almost nothing else, and it is a compliment in the way that describing a face as noble is — the word carries the eagle's dignity with it. Roman portrait sculpture is where the association was fixed.
1adjectiveaquilineCurved like an eagle's beak.
“He had an aquiline nose and sharp, dark eyes.”
aquiline is a quality of shape.
Latin aquilinus comes from aquila, an eagle.
Latin
aquilīnus
English, today
aquiline
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From Latin aquilīnus. From Latin aquilīnus, from aquila (“eagle”).
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