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Leonina
  • Leonina (coin), a coin issued under pope Leo XII : see Papal mint
  • Civitas Leonina, the Leonine City, a part of the city of Rome

Usage examples of "leonina".

There was that smell, the overall leonine stink of the compound, but something subtler when one of them came close, the milky sweetness I had noticed about Rosa.

I breathed deep, trying to clear my head of that leonine underground tang.

If I am in a crowd, sometimes I will detect a whiff of that leonine animal musk of the Coalescents, and I have to retreat to my room, or the fresh air of the empty hills above the towns.