Both Uses of
gaunt
in
Main Street
- The houses on the outskirts were dusky old red mansions with wooden frills, or gaunt frame shelters like grocery boxes, or new bungalows with concrete foundations imitating stone.†
Chpt 3 *
- She glanced about the rusty office—gaunt stove, shelves of tan law-books, desk-chair filled with newspapers so long sat upon that they were in holes and smudged to grayness.†
Chpt 13
Definition:
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(gaunt) very thin and bony -- often from hunger or as though having been worn to the bone