ETYMOLOGY
from the fancied resemblance of the face to the shape of a lantern
EXAMPLE
“…A lanthorn-jaw’d woman, with a hatchet face, sunk eyes, a hook nose, taper lips, leather cheeks, dark Gums, straggling teeth, and such a low forehead, that her hair serves instead of eyebrows…”
From: The Comical Works of Don Francisco de Quevedo
Translated by John Stevens, 1707
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