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  • adjective having a relatively large mouth

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Examples

  • Ingvar Högni Ragnarsson for The Wall Street Journal House-made carrot cake, candied walnuts with whipped cream cheese and carrot sorbet | Höfnin serves tangy seafood under wood beams and large-mouthed camping lanterns.

    Under the Midnight Sun 2011

  • While the more courageous of the youngsters played in and out of the large-mouthed caves, I early learned that such caves were unoccupied.

    CHAPTER VI 2010

  • Near Reykjavik's working docks, 10 minutes from Hotel Borg, Höfnin serves tangy seafood under wood beams and large-mouthed camping lanterns.

    Take Monday Off: Iceland Dennis K. Berman 2011

  • Couldn't keep up with the large-mouthed fools today. still laughing at that comment.

    Heat-Addled: Cooler Heads Will Prevail BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • There were white cotton blouses and tunics from Tocuaro decorated with orange punto de cruz flowers across the top and electrifying black keywork racing down the front; glazed serving bowls, large-mouthed bowls, pots and pitchers from Patamban; glistening ceramic pineapples from San José de Gracia bristling with jagged leaves and powdered with delicate florets.

    Michoacán's master craftspeople and their arts 2008

  • There were white cotton blouses and tunics from Tocuaro decorated with orange punto de cruz flowers across the top and electrifying black keywork racing down the front; glazed serving bowls, large-mouthed bowls, pots and pitchers from Patamban; glistening ceramic pineapples from San José de Gracia bristling with jagged leaves and powdered with delicate florets.

    Michoacán's master craftspeople and their arts 2008

  • There were white cotton blouses and tunics from Tocuaro decorated with orange punto de cruz flowers across the top and electrifying black keywork racing down the front; glazed serving bowls, large-mouthed bowls, pots and pitchers from Patamban; glistening ceramic pineapples from San José de Gracia bristling with jagged leaves and powdered with delicate florets.

    Michoacán's master craftspeople and their arts 2008

  • There were white cotton blouses and tunics from Tocuaro decorated with orange punto de cruz flowers across the top and electrifying black keywork racing down the front; glazed serving bowls, large-mouthed bowls, pots and pitchers from Patamban; glistening ceramic pineapples from San José de Gracia bristling with jagged leaves and powdered with delicate florets.

    Michoacán's master craftspeople and their arts 2008

  • Wang Guangyi's kitschy communist-style propaganda posters incorporated iconic consumer logos, such as Coca-Cola and Porsche, and Yue Minjun mocked the fast-changing world with his paintings of large-mouthed men grinning relentlessly.

    All Eyes Inward 2009

  • A large-mouthed bass jumped to my left, pushing out ever-widening circles.

    Thelma Adams: Motherhood Tales: My Little Runaway 2009

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