Definitions
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- noun An aquiline nose.
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- noun an
aquiline nose - noun someone with such a nose
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- noun a nose with a prominent slightly aquiline bridge
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Examples
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A few moments later, another protester made a break for the stage wearing a gigantic papier-mâché mask that someone told me looked like a caricature of the speaker featuring a giant hooknose.
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He spoke of his hooknose as ‘Roman’, and was proud of his resemblance to some Roman Emperor — it was
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Aram Baksh came forward, walking softly, a portly man, with a black beard that swept his breast, a jutting hooknose, and small black eyes which were never still.
Conan the Wanderer Howard, Robert E. 1974
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He spoke of his hooknose as Roman, and was proud of his resemblance to some Roman Emperorit was Vespasian, I think.
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They had all chosen baby parrots, with childish looks upon their hooknose faces; they had no tails yet; they were green, of a wonderful shade.
An Iceland Fisherman Pierre Loti 1886
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She's fond of Adiante, and she sympathises with her brother Edward made a grandfather through the instrumentality of that foreign hooknose; and Patrick must turn the two dagger sentiments to a sort of love-knot and there's the task he'll have to work out in his letter to Miss Caroline.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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She's fond of Adiante, and she sympathises with her brother Edward made a grandfather through the instrumentality of that foreign hooknose; and Patrick must turn the two dagger sentiments to a sort of love-knot and there's the task he'll have to work out in his letter to Miss Caroline.
Celt and Saxon — Complete George Meredith 1868
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She's fond of Adiante, and she sympathises with her brother Edward made a grandfather through the instrumentality of that foreign hooknose; and Patrick must turn the two dagger sentiments to a sort of love-knot and there's the task he'll have to work out in his letter to Miss Caroline.
Celt and Saxon — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868
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All Jews are wealthy; all Jews are money-grubbers; they all have the hooknose - all the old stereotypes that you saw from Nazi Germany.
Articles 2009
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AvaxHome hooknose 2010
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