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armgaunt en · ADJ

Etymology

Perhaps arm + gaunt.

Meanings

1. (archaic, nonce-word) Of uncertain meaning; perhaps describing gaunt or slender limbs.
   • Quixote comes, in battered mail, Armgaunt, with eyes of some keen haggard hawk Far from his eyrie 1951, Clark Ashton Smith, The Dark Chateau: And Other Poems, page 25:
   • And soberly did mount an armgaunt steed. 1607, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra:
   • SERVANT (Imitating the style of his master) The awful armgaunt knight who wields the Gorgon, shaking three shadowy plumes. 1979, William Joseph Myles Starkie, The Acharnians of Aristophanes, page 195:

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