hawk nose
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6.7
- noun
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nariz de halcón
- Visitors often comment on her striking hawk nose when admiring her portrait.
Examples
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His face, which was spread neatly along either side of his hawk nose, had firm, finely cut lips of pale pink behind which teeth of a nacreous white could be seen when he smiled or lifted his lip in the small sneer with which he expressed emotion.
Fiction book (1991) -
He had a long, narrow face with a hawk nose and a wide forehead with eyebrows set high above hazel eyes that were disarmingly frank to look upon.
Fiction book (1991) -
And now that I really look at her, it's got to do with her thin, chapped lips, her hawk nose, and her long neck.
Fiction book (1994) -
Tic-Tac, the little man with the hawk nose, is striding into the room, briskly approaching Tom.
Fiction book (1990) -
The other was a tall, thin, sallow girl with a punkish crew-cut and a hawk nose.
Fiction book (2001) -
There on the bench sat a mulatto, a young Haitian with bronze skin, an impressive hawk nose, and a black mass of hair that grazed his shoulders.
Fiction book (2000) -
She has a prominent hawk nose, which gives her face a unique character.
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The artist captured the man's features perfectly, especially his distinct hawk nose.
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Morphology
The meaning 'a nose curved downward resembling a hawk's beak' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'hawk' (a bird known for a curved beak) with 'nose' — a straightforward descriptive compound. Animal-based shape metaphors for body parts are common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The noun hawk nose comes from the hooked beak of a hawk, because a nose with the same curve looks like that bird's beak. So calling someone a hawk nose means their nose is 'curved down' or hooked in shape.