All 8 Uses
taut
in
The God of Small Things
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- Her watchfulness stretched her, made her taut and tense.†
Chpt 2 *
- The sculpted hollows on either side of his taut, beautiful buns.†
Chpt 3
- His vest, taut and stretched over his round stomach like a second skin, went slack over the depression of his belly button.†
Chpt 4
- She saw the ridges of muscle on Velutha's stomach grow taut and rise under his skin like the divisions on a slab of chocolate.†
Chpt 8
- As plain to feel as the heat on a hot day, or the tug of a fish on a taut line.†
Chpt 8
- Where she touched herself her flesh was taut and smooth.†
Chpt 11
- Only the skin on her throat was taut and smooth, stretched over an enormous goiter.†
Chpt 14
- His legs were already spindly and his taut, distended belly, like his tiny mother's goiter, was completely at odds with the rest of his thin, narrow body and alert face.†
Chpt 14
Definitions:
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(1)
(taut) pulled or drawn tight;
or: subjected to great tension - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)