Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having lantern-jaws; having a long, thin face.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having lantern jaws or long, thin jaws.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective With a
protruding orjutting lowerjaw .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a protruding jaw giving the face a gaunt appearance
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Examples
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Hair color I mostly remember, but not always … And when you throw out descriptors like “lantern-jawed” or “delicate cheekbones” or “strong nose” I can rarely think of a name to use as an example.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Character descriptions: a poll 2009
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May 14, 2010 2: 16 PM lora96 said ... my poor retinas will never be the same, scorched as they are by the horrendous and repulsive cover art. which sort of reader are they trying to attract? lantern-jawed gentlemen with massive glowing winkies??
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She's the reason that in Australia, the phrase is: "It's not over until the tall, big-boned, lantern-jawed woman sings."
Tallulah Morehead: Dead Folks 2010: Everyone's Pushing Up Roses Tallulah Morehead 2011
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My imagination caught fire as I envisioned myself as some kind of lantern-jawed “Dudley Do Right”, heroically battling forest fires like a Montana smoke jumper, pulling off death defying back country rescues in the mountain wilderness, and performing other Forest Rangerly and manly acts of derring-do.
Buffalo Bob and the Honey Dipper Michael Gillan Maxwell 2011
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She's the reason that in Australia, the phrase is: "It's not over until the tall, big-boned, lantern-jawed woman sings."
Tallulah Morehead: Dead Folks 2010: Everyone's Pushing Up Roses Tallulah Morehead 2011
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And in still photos, he looked a bit awkward, lantern-jawed, his features all at not quite the right angles to one another.
William Bradley: A Welcome Blast From the New Doctor Who William Bradley 2011
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Although he has his mother's blue Irish eyes, in every other respect he's the bald-headed, lantern-jawed, moustachioed image of his late father: the character actor Lionel Jeffries, who also directed the classic 1970 film The Railway Children.
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Radcliffe may be a lantern-jawed 22-year-old leading man, and Watson a 21-year-old fashion maven, but the memory of those schoolkid personas – owlish and goody-two-shoes respectively – will stick around for ever.
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And in still photos, he looked a bit awkward, lantern-jawed, his features all at not quite the right angles to one another.
William Bradley: A Welcome Blast From the New Doctor Who William Bradley 2011
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Therefore, episode one will revolve around lantern-jawed millionaire Billy Mitchell, and his affair with sensual bikini model Pat Butcher.
Matt LeBlanc comedy Episodes shows what can go wrong in remaking telly 2011
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