lantern-jawed
See also: lantern jawed
English
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Adjective
lantern-jawed (not comparable)
- Having a protruding or jutting lower jaw.
- 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 15”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], OCLC 855945:
- He was very thin and lantern-jawed. He dared not meet his own eyes in the mirror; he never looked at himself.
- 1976, Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick, Delacorte Press, Chapter 1, p. 21,
- A blue-eyed, lantern-jawed old white man, who is two meters tall and one hundred years old, sits in the clearing on what was once the back seat of a taxicab.
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