chiselled
Britishadjective
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carved or formed with or as if with a chisel
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clear-cut
finely chiselled features
Example Sentences
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Chiselled balconies spill from one level to the next, connected by steps in one continuous terraced landscape.
From The Guardian • Nov. 4, 2016
Chiselled into the outcrops of dolomite limestone that dot the cape, the inscriptions have provided invaluable insight into the private lives of those who inhabited archaic and classical Greece.
From The Guardian • Jul. 6, 2014
And now his face, that perfect seemed before, Chiselled by these two careful artists, wore A look exalted, which the spirit gives When soul has conquered, and the body lives Subservient to its bidding.
From Maurine and Other Poems by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
Chiselled like a cameo of white agate against the hangings, Struck to brilliance by the falling moonlight, A face!
From Men, Women and Ghosts by Lowell, Amy
Too much it was: I withered in the breath; And lay again ten thousand lifeless years; And then my soul shook, woke—and saw three biers Chiselled of solid night majestically.
From Song-Surf by Rice, Cale Young
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