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carven
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What does carven mean?
adjective
- Made by carving, especially when intricately or artistically done.
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verb
- (archaic) past participle of carve.
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Man by man those who stood between us and the carven sorapus wood bench went down before our blades.
"This is a carven flagon," said Sara, arranging tendrils of the wreath about the mug.
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There was no ticket office, nothing but a couple of whittled and carven benches.
But the Sage led through it all unfumbling, and moreover now and again they came on that carven token of the sword and the bough.
Amid picturesque and disordered fragments of a hundred ages, in a great carven chair placed before a towering statue of the Buddha, sat a hand-cuffed man.