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Definition
very thin and bony — often from hunger or as though having been worn to the bone
- 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.Chapter 3 (67% in)
- 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.Chapter 13 (7% in)
There are no more uses of "gaunt" in Main Street.
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