Both Uses of
gaunt
in
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
- Their faces were gaunt and bony with dark nubs of hair.
Chpt 13 *gaunt = very thin
- Her face was gaunt, with sagging cheeks, rose-colored lipstick, and tightly pulled-back white hair, thin enough in parts to reveal the pink scalp beneath it.†
Chpt 20
Definition:
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(gaunt) very thin and bony -- often from hunger or as though having been worn to the bone