Definition of "hooknose" [hooknose]

• An aquiline nose. (noun)

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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."
• "He spoke of his hooknose as ‘Roman’, and was proud of his resemblance to some Roman Emperor — it was"
• "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."