lantern-jawed

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See also: lantern jawed

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lantern-jawed (not comparable)

  1. Having a protruding or jutting lower jaw.
    • 1913, D H Lawrence, “chapter 15”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. , →OCLC:
      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, chapter 1, in Slapstick, Delacorte Press, page 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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