All 5 Uses of
gaunt
in
The Bourne Supremacy
- Seated alone at the end of the eastern leg by the brick wall was a slender man of medium height, with close-cropped, prematurely grey hair and gaunt features.†
Chpt 19 *
- He stared into the gaunt, wrinkled face of a very old man with thinning grey hair.†
Chpt 21
- The close-cropped grey hair, the gaunt, pale features — above all, the stare.†
Chpt 26
- 'He did these things?' shouted the gaunt-faced orator.†
Chpt 26
- Bourne looked back to the executioner, the man with the gaunt face and close-cropped grey hair.†
Chpt 26
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.