armgaunt

comparative more armgaunt · superlative most armgaunt

1. archaicnonce wordOf uncertain meaning; perhaps describing gaunt or slender limbs.

   And soberly did mount an armgaunt steed.

   1607, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

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   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

   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