Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A glover. York Plays, Index, p. lxxvi.

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  • adjective comparative form of gaunt: more gaunt

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Examples

  • Sherlock Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt figure made even gaunter and taller by his long gray travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap.

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  • Sherlock Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt figure made even gaunter and taller by his long gray travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap.

    Sole Music 2010

  • He looks both gaunter and more appealing than during the glory years, when the drugging and boozing often swelled him up like a sweating, smirking sausage.

    FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010

  • As a member of those political elite Ben Affleck, looking older and gaunter, handles his public persona with a stoic, smooth demeanour, but underneath you can see the brittle and cracked pressure cooker of his private life.

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  • Older, gaunter, and more disheveled, it is still recognizably the man from the screen: Rudolf Hess, former deputy führer of the Third Reich.

    Excerpt: The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies 2007

  • My face is more robust than anyone in the village but it by far much gaunter than yours.

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  • Framed by the bedroom doorway, he appeared even smaller, gaunter, than I remembered.

    'The Boat' 2008

  • Looked gaunter and paler after several months locked up in the county slammer here in Washington County.

    CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2006 2006

  • He snorted to himself as he imagined Moran getting gaunter from all the exercise -- the harper rarely put on such a hefty pace.

    Dragon's Fire McCaffrey, Anne 2006

  • She seemed even thinner and gaunter than she had the last time Ana saw her.

    Beauty Nancy Butcher 2003

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