2. Adjective. (British) (of a face) having strongly defined facial features. ¹
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Definition of Chiselled
1. chisel [v] - See also: chisel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chiselled
Literary usage of Chiselled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"The helmet and bearings h;ive been chiselled off. This injury was, I believe,
done by the French republicans. ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"which everything superfluous has been sternly chiselled away, and whose wonderful
balance might seem tameness to the ordinary observer; who demands strain ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Besides his single figures in marble, he chiselled many beautiful retables, or
monumental altar-pieces. HOARD. Vie des peintres espagnol» (Paria, ..."
4. Historic and Monumental Rome: A Handbook for the Students of Classical and by Charles Isidore Hemans (1874)
"Some elaborately chiselled cornices of white marble had been replaced where (at
least) they were supposed to have been originally set against the walls. ..."
5. Parthian Stations by Isidore, Wilfred Harvey Schoff (1914)
"... and in the rock carvings, sculptures and inscriptions which look down upon
him from the chiselled surface of the mountain side, he both reads a tale of ..."
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