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aquiline noses

aquiline noses is the plural of aquiline nose.

Meaning of aquiline nose

Noun

aquiline nose (plural aquiline noses)

  1. A nose with a hooked, bent shape.
    • She was delicately fair, with an aquiline nose, and a mouth the size of which was forgotten in its white teeth and pleasant smile. She wore a peruke of very fair golden hair; and herein was shown the lurking spirit of female vanity: her own tresses had been very beautiful;...1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 217
    Synonyms:
    hooknose, Roman nose

Questions about aquiline noses

What is aquiline noses the plural of?
Aquiline noses is the plural of aquiline nose.

Words near aquiline noses in the dictionary

  1. Aquilids
  2. Aquilina
  3. Aquilinas
  4. aquiline
  5. aquiline nose
  6. aquiline noses
  7. aquilinely
  8. aquilineness
  9. aquilinities
  10. aquilinity
  11. aquilino

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