gauntly

Variant of gaunt

gaunt definition

gaunt (gônt, gänt)

adjective

  1. thin and bony; hollow-eyed and haggard, as from great hunger or age; emaciated
  2. looking grim, forbidding, or desolate

Etymology: ME gawnte, earlier gant, slender, thin, gaunt < ?

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