Meaning of aquilineness | Babel Free

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The quality of being like an eagle.

uncountable

Examples

“1848, George Jabet (as Eden Warwick), Nasology: or, Hints towards a Classification of Noses, London: Richard Bentley, Chapter 6, p. 169, footnote, The convexity of the Roman Nose is confined to the centre of the Nose, and occasions its aquilineness.”

“[…] there may be a nose which deviates from the ideal straightness towards the aquiline or the snub, but still remains beautiful and fair to view⟳, and yet, if you still further intensify and exaggerate these tendencies, you will first sacrifice the due proportion of the feature, and, as you proceed, will eventually make⟳ it cease to look⟳ like⟳ a nose at all from the prominence of the one and the deficiency of the other of these opposite characteristics, viz., aquilineness and snubness,”

“After centuries of being told, in a million different ways, that they were not beautiful, and that whiteness of skin, straightness of hair, and aquilineness of features constituted the only measures of beauty, black people have⟳ revolted.”

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