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Creviced

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crev·ice  (krvs)
n.
A narrow crack or opening; a fissure or cleft.

[Middle English, from Old French crevace, probably from Vulgar Latin *crepcia, from *crepa, from Latin crepre, to crack.]

creviced adj.


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Rogan's creviced face heaved and crumpled into an infectious laugh.
There are no words to describe the sloping glaciers creviced between rolling hills of red lava rock with wind whistling freely and coolly across.
The tiny terraced houses where herring fishermen with creviced faces carved by the salt air used to live now have plastic patio furniture parked outside them.
 
 
 
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