Lionesque

The Psalms provided the Gnostics with the source of this portrait of the creator as lionesque, enabling them to identify him as an erotic, lion-headed leader of the animal-like archons.

Preston was a lionesque, tall, massive man, with a generous sized moustache, and beautiful green eyes.

With her copper skin and her golden hair, B.B. thought she looked positively lionesque.

On his bas-reliefs and plaques, allegorical, stylized, and muscular heroes break their chains and brandish large swords. LaSalle holds his two hands on a hugesword planted in front of him and looks like a medieval chevalier, fierce and lionesque.