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 all The prisoners and the prizes at those isles They left behind them, taking what they would From out their carven cabins,—glimmering silks, Chiselled Toledo blades, and broad doubloons.
From Collected Poems Volume One by Noyes, Alfred
Chiselled peak after peak, upon which no traveller has ever set foot, glistened in the sun, apparently about ten miles off, in reality more like thirty or forty.
From In the Tail of the Peacock by Savory, Isabel
Chiselled on one of the end boulders was the name of Alix Windom Crown, with the date of her birth and her death, with the line: "Rock of Ages Cleft for Me."
From Quill's Window by McCutcheon, George Barr
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