Both Uses
gaunt
in
A Farewell to Arms
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- "How do you do?" said the tall gaunt doctor with the beard.†
Book 2
- It was a very tall gaunt captain of artillery with a red scar along his jaw.
Book 2 *gaunt = very thin and bony
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) 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.