cavate
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of cavate
1725–35; < Latin cavātus made hollow (past participle), equivalent to cav ( āre ) to hollow + -ātus -ate 1
Example Sentences
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This room has also a small cist of masonry in one corner, which calls to mind certain sealed cavities in the cavate dwellings.
From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter
Cavalieri, Bonaventura: Sfera Astronomica, Lettore primario delle Matematiche nello studio di Bologna ... cavate da MS. dell'Autore da Antonio Manari.
From The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe by Stimson, Dorothy
These cavate rooms were arranged tier above tier in a very irregular way.
From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter
Later in the season the party visited the cavate ruins near Santa Clara, previously explored by Mr. Stevenson.
From Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 by Powell, John Wesley
These cavate lodges afford a fair idea of the best known of these prehistoric dwellings in this part of Arizona.
From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter
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