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cloven

[kloh-vuhn] / ˈkloʊ vən /


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Foot and mouth disease is a highly contagious virus that affects cloven hooved animals.

From Reuters • Jul. 20, 2022

“Luckenbooth” starts in 1910 and creeps across the 20th century on cloven feet.

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2021

“Chilling Adventures” hurls everything it can into its narrative cauldron, including a cave like a Hellmouth and a prep school like a satanic Hogwarts, replete with cloven hooves and pentagrams.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 26, 2018

“Its cats. Its pale sky. The empty sky of morning, drained and pure. Its deep, cloven streets. Its narrow courts, the faint, rotten odor within, orange peels lying in the corners.”

From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2018

He came, a weary man with dinted helm and cloven shield.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien




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