Both Uses of
gaunt
in
The Westing Game
- Her faded hair, knotted in a tight bun on the nape of her gaunt neck, glinted gold-red in the light.†
p. 12.2 *
- Clutching a robe about her gaunt frame, her unknotted hair hanging long and limp, she tried to focus her dulled eyes on the shocked face of her visitor.†
p. 102.9
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.