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cloven

[kloh-vuhn] / ˈkloʊ vən /


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Foot and mouth disease is a highly contagious virus that affects cloven hooved animals.

From Reuters • Jul. 20, 2022

In the video, the singer has deer horns and cloven hooves.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2021

The name of a police officer who supposedly investigated the cloven footprints in the snow was made up.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2021

“Chilling Adventures” hurls everything it can into its narrative cauldron, including a cave like a Hellmouth and a prep school like a satanic Hogwarts, replete with cloven hooves and pentagrams.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 26, 2018

“And, for thou wast a spirit too deli-cate/To act her earthy and abhorr’d commands ... /she did confine thee. . . into a cloven pine—” he whispered, and Meg recognized Mrs Who’s words to him.

From "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle




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