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Lantern jaws

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long, thin jaws; hence, a thin visage.

See also: Lantern



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There was, also, a little group of three or four young men with lantern jaws and thick eyebrows, who were conversing in one corner; but they seemed to be of secondary importance, and laughed and talked together without attracting any attention.
Drink yourself, and light up your lantern jaws, old boy.
The chief offender seemed to be his highness's brother, whose name alone would lengthen the old man's lantern jaws and pucker his parrot nose into a sneer.
 
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