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Definition of Lantern-jawed
1. Adjective. Having a protruding jaw giving the face a gaunt appearance.
Definition of Lantern-jawed
1. Adjective. With a protruding or jutting lower jaw. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lantern-jawed
Literary usage of Lantern-jawed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southern Literary Messenger (1850)
"I have observed several times a tall, stiff, lantern-jawed individual gazing upon
the moving circle. I cannot undertake to designate his nationality, ..."
2. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1899)
""My wife," said the tall, lantern jawed man, "is as womanly a woman as you could
find, but she can hammer nails like lightning." "Wonderful! ..."
3. The Journals of Washington Irving (hitherto Unpublished) by Washington Irving (1919)
"Just then we meet old lantern-jawed man who had lost his horse — had just met
... lantern-jawed man was for tying him up and giving him a swing of rushes, ..."
4. My Company by Carroll Judson Swan (1918)
"Philip Lasell, formerly one of the "Merri Merri" in the Winter Garden shows back
in the States, was always laughing, so he was "lantern-jawed Phil. ..."
5. My Company by Carroll Judson Swan (1918)
"The boys claimed they called him "lantern-jawed" because "it made his face light
up." The next morning the French officers told us of the various works we ..."
6. The West Somerset Word-book: A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and by Frederick Thomas Elworthy (1886)
"lantern-jawed [lan-turn-jaa'd], adj. Thin-faced, having hollow-looking cheeks.
(Very com.) Take an' bide 'ome an' mind thy ..."
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