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Lantern-jawed   /lˈæntərn-dʒɔd/   Listen
Lantern-jawed

adjective
1.
Having a protruding jaw giving the face a gaunt appearance.






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"Lantern-jawed" Quotes from Famous Books



... was destined to be disappointed, for I was scarcely seated in my place when I found him beside me. The third occupant of this "privileged den," as well as my lamp-light survey of him permitted, afforded nothing to build on as a compensation for the German. He was a tall, lanky, lantern-jawed man, with a hook nose and projecting chin; his hair, which had only been permitted to grow very lately, formed that curve upon his forehead we see in certain old fashioned horse-shoe wigs; his compressed lip and hard features ...
— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete • Charles James Lever (1806-1872)

... occasionally a lantern-jawed fellow would look pious at them, as though afraid he would be contaminated. So Sunday morning they decided to go to church in a body. Seventy-five of them slicked up and marched to the Rev. Dr. Morgan's church, where the reverend gentleman was going to deliver a sermon on ...
— Peck's Compendium of Fun • George W. Peck



Words linked to "Lantern-jawed" :   prognathous, prognathic, hypognathous



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