cavate

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adjective

1. hollowed out, as a space excavated from rock:

   cavate cliff dwellings.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cavate¹

1725–35; < Latin cavātus made hollow (past participle), equivalent to cav ( āre ) to hollow + -ātus -ate ¹

Example Sentences

"He looks like an African native monkey with a black face, gaunt grey eyes, cavate nostrils, plump mouth and hairy rough ears," one North Korean was quoted in the Korean-language report.

From Reuters

Cavalieri, Bonaventura: Sfera Astronomica, Lettore primario delle Matematiche nello studio di Bologna ... cavate da MS. dell'Autore da Antonio Manari.

From Project Gutenberg

Rime di Michel-Angelo Buonarroti, cavate dagli autografi e publicate da Cesare Guasti.

From Project Gutenberg

Every mesa had at least one ancient pueblo upon it, evidently far more ancient than the cavate dwellings found in the face of the cliffs.

From Project Gutenberg

On the very summit of the ridge stone buildings were erected, so that this village was in part a cliff village, in part cavate, and in part the ordinary stone pueblo.

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