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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
gaunt/ɡɔːnt/
▶adjective
- 1 lean and haggard, especially through illness, hunger, or age.
- 2 (of a place) grim or desolate in appearance.
– derivatives
gauntly adverb,
gauntness noun.
gauntly adverb,
gauntness noun.
– origin ME: of unknown origin.
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