carven
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Yellow-garmented Buddhist priests chanted prayers, thumbed beads, whirred carven prayer wheels.
From Time Magazine Archive
Behind the eyes, under the suave casque of carven hair are, beyond doubt, the thoughts of the Marchioness of Cholmondeley.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Justice, a carven figure in a twisted courtroom, is relentless.
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In their ruddy jackets of leather, the twelve members appeared before their stately lord where he sat in a carven chair in his long red room.
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When she had done, and smoothed me with sweet oil, she put a tunic and a cloak around me and took me to a silver-studded chair with footrest, all elaborately carven.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
