Definition of "chiselled" [chiselled]

• Simple past tense and past participle of chisel. (verb)
• (of a face) having strongly defined facial features. (adjective)

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• "'I charge you, when you next look on your father's monument, to respect the name chiselled there."
• "It is, we learn, "a moment/chiselled from the dream" - and thus a reminder of the early influences of surrealism, which precisely forced different times, regions, and identities to merge in one single here, now, and I, dictated by the logic of the dream."
• "The Minafer monument was a granite block, with the name chiselled upon its one polished side, and the Amberson monument was a white marble shaft, taller than any other in that neighbourhood."