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Definition
very thin and bony — often from hunger or as though having been worn to the bone
- He remembered wandering through dimly-lit streets with gaunt black-shadowed archways and evil-looking houses.Chapter 5 (70% in)
- 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.Chapter 9 (82% in)
There are no more uses of "gaunt" in Picture of Dorian Gray - 13 chapter version.
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