aquilinity

plural aquilinities

1. countableuncountableThe quality of being aquiline (resembling an eagle).

   Aunt Em was working at a new piece of French tapestry, her slight aquilinity emphasised by tortoise-shell spectacles.

   1933, John Galsworthy, chapter 5, in Over the River, Toronto: The Ryerson Press, page 32

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   These idols, though representing the softer sex as often as the masculine, were by no means remarkable for personal beauty. Not one had been permitted to retain its entire complement of limbs, and if a lady had managed to preserve the aquilinity of her nose, she might consider herself a fortunate exception.

   1866, James Payn, chapter 2, in The Clyffards of Clyffe,, volume 2, London: Hurst and Blackett, page 24

   […] & so it came to pass that, on the same week Sissee Nar’s nose was Enhanced into eternal aquilinity, Nar & Tri-Stan’s much-ballyhooed Satyr-Nymph Network was born & licensed for analog broadcast.

   1999, David Foster Wallace, “Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko”, in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Boston: Little, Brown

   Synonyms: aquilineness