a. [f. LION + -ESQUE.] Characteristic of a lion.
1854. Racine Advocate, 21 July, 2/1. Aesop, La Fontaine, Croxall, and Dodsley, have done most mirthful justice to the efforts of the Ass to transcend his nature and his mission, and to get up into the region of the lionesque, the canine, and the human.
1882. Macm. Mag., XLVI. 245. His profile was that of a Greek statue; the eyes small and piercing; the whole face lionesque.
1894. Fenn, In Alpine Valley, II. 166. His lionesque tramp up and down their prison.
