Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Depressed in spirits; dejected; chapfalien.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Dejected; chopfallen.
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Examples
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The people who came about us, as we alighted, seemed by their jaw-fallen faces, and goggling eyes, to wonder at beholding a charming young lady, majesty in her air and aspect, so composedly dressed, yet with features so discomposed, come off a journey which made the cattle smoke, and the servants sweat.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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The people who came about us, as we alighted, seemed by their jaw-fallen faces, and goggling eyes, to wonder at beholding a charming young lady, majesty in her air and aspect, so composedly dressed, yet with features so discomposed, come off a journey which made the cattle smoke, and the servants sweat.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 Samuel Richardson 1725
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