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carven

car·ven

uncommon archaic

adjective

1.

made for or formed by carving (`carven'' is archaic or literary)

  • “the carved fretwork”
  • “an intricately carved door”
  • “stood as if carven from stone”
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From Middle English carven, a variant (with the vowel modified to match the present stem) of Middle English corven, y-corven (“carved”), from Old English corfen, ġecorfen (“cut, carved”), from Proto-West Germanic *korban, from Proto-Germanic *kurbanaz (“cut, carved”), past participle of *kerbaną (“to carve”). Equivalent to carve + -en (past participle ending).

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