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Definition of Hooknosed
1. a. Having a hooked or aquiline nose.
Definition of Hooknosed
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hooknosed
Literary usage of Hooknosed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum by Montague Rhodes James (1895)
"White draped altar on L. Cain beardless, hooknosed, with jawbone raised ...
Above him Christ appearing speaks to Cain, hooknosed, holding a bloody jawbone. ..."
2. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (1908)
"He was a hooknosed man, and with that and his bright eyes and his ruffled head,
bore a certain likeness to a roused bird of prey. " Take that thing off your ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"... the hooknosed salmons of the west coast. All the American species—five in
number—have their alimentary canal so shrunken and defunc- tionalized soon ..."
4. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1898)
"... the door of his native pawnbroker's shop, and a complement of hooknosed
children, magnificent in attire. Their number and magnificence did not break the ..."
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