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lantern jaw

n. a long thin lower jaw

Usage examples of "lantern jaw".

Muscles tensed at the corners of Raven's lantern jaw and the flesh tightened around his eyes.

He was shaking with it, it clouded his gaze and knotted the muscles at the points of his heavy lantern jaw.

Jon Thane, the miller, was wiping a smear of blood from his ribs, lantern jaw on his chest so he could stare at what his hands were doing.

Tall and thin, storklike, with a waist-length fall of curly silver-gray hair, huge gray eyes, a nose as prominent as Lady Cinnabar's and a lantern jaw kept scrupulously clean-shaven, he did not look like the finest of Adept-class mages.

There a sweet-eyed Irish girl whose lantern jaw had surely embittered her life.

He wore the same uniform, but he was a tall Matabele with a deep intelligent forehead and a hard smood-shaven lantern jaw.