Both Uses of
gaunt
in
A Room With A View
- They passed together through the gaunt beauty of the square, laughing over the unpractical suggestion.†
Chpt 5 *
- That day she had seemed a typical tourist—shrill, crude, and gaunt with travel.†
Chpt 8
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.