square-jawed

See also: squarejawed

English

Alternative forms

• squarejawed

Adjective

square-jawed (not comparable)

1. Having a square jaw.
   • 1847, “The Wellington Statue”, in The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c., London, page 523, column 2:

     The horse was not in the least like a Greek horse (nor even a Trojan), and F.M. the Duke of Wellington was not represented with the ensis or short sword in his grasp, the chlamys flying from his shoulder, or the paludamentum, as more suitable for the cool of the English climate (totidem divisos orbe &c.), the kothornos on his leg, the galea slung at the crupper? no reins, and his naked nether-man, not (as in these precious models) seated on the bare back of the bull-necked, square-jawed, dray-limbed steed.

   • 1853 November 17, “Shocking State of Society”, in The Tri-Weekly Commercial, volume VIII, number 105 (whole 1065), Wilmington, N.C., page [4], column 1:

     A square-jawed ruffian, in mud-anointed overcoat, is preluding to a fight with a woman about some etiquette, in one of these dens.

   • 1928, Eugene Jones, “The Murderer”, in The Last Clue, London: Selwyn & Blount […], page 266:

     Chief Blasdel proved to be a square-jawed, white-moustached individual reminding me somehow of pictures I had seen of General Pershing.