rock-cutadj.
/ˈrɒkkʌt/, U.S. /ˈrɑ(k)ˌkət/ Cut from rock; built into excavated rock.
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1767 G. A. Stevens French Flogged i. iv. 13 Behind these lime trees in a rock cut cave, there lives the witch of the woods.
1834 Penny Cycl. II. 283/1 The rock-cut tombs or temples in Nubia.
1882 Harper's Mag. Mar. 542/1 Somnambula might walk on such a rustic bridge as that thrown across to another rock-cut chapel in the cliff.
1933 Burlington Mag. Nov. 237/1 The paintings in the rock-cut Chapels of Cappadocia.
1979 London Rev. Bks. 25 Oct. 14/2 (advt.) Two hundred years ago..Buddhist rock-cut shrines, the mosques of Moslems,..were all but unknown to Europeans.
1995 Independent on Sunday 2 July 72/1 The rock-cut homes of western France are man-made.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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