Both Uses of
gaunt
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 13 chapter version
- He remembered wandering through dimly-lit streets with gaunt black-shadowed archways and evil-looking houses.†
Chpt 5 *
- He loved to stroll through the gaunt cold picture-gallery of his country-house and look at the various portraits of those whose blood flowed in his veins.†
Chpt 9
Definitions:
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(1)
(gaunt) very thin and bony -- often from hunger or as though having been worn to the bone
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, gaunt can reference a place such as a landscape or a home, in which case it indicates that the place is bleak or barren.