chaunt
Americannoun
noun
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- chaunter noun
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Recently, the South African photographer Roger Ballen constructed one of his unsettling dioramas for Joy Williams’s “Chaunt,” the story of a grieving mother and her stay at a remote asylum.
From The New Yorker
A photograph made for the short story “Chaunt,” by Joy Williams.
From The New Yorker
The driver of the car that struck them as they were on their bicycles, returning on the long, flat road from Chaunt, was a retired thoracic surgeon.
From The New Yorker
No one could understand why she had allowed two small boys to go to Chaunt again and again.
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What kind of mother was she, anyway, letting two little boys spend all their time at Chaunt, so far away and not even there.
From The New Yorker
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