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Meaning of lantern-jawed | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Having a protruding or jutting lower jaw.

not-comparable

Examples

“He was very thin and lantern-jawed. He dared not meet his own eyes in the mirror; he never looked at himself.”
“A blue-eyed, lantern-jawed old white man, who is two meters tall and one hundred years old, sits in the clearing on what was once the back seat of a taxicab.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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