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Cyclopean
[ sahy-kluh-pee-uhn, sahy-klop-ee-uhn ]
Cyclopean
/ 藢sa瑟kl蓹蕣藞pi藧蓹n; sa瑟藞kl蓹蕣p瑟蓹n /
adjective
- of, relating to, or resembling the Cyclops
- denoting, relating to, or having the kind of masonry used in preclassical Greek architecture, characterized by large dry undressed blocks of stone
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of Cyclopean1
Example Sentences
The problem is that compared to a Cyclopean eye in the sky or a boat getting sliced to pieces by an invisible web out of Stephen King鈥檚 鈥淭he Mist,鈥 none of this is all that interesting.
鈥淭hey are like apotropaic amulets warding off the evil eye: an army of ever-watchful, unblinking, cyclopean eyes,鈥 wrote critic Zo茅 Samudzi in a short monograph of William鈥檚 work published in 2021.
Excavations conducted on and around the Cyclopean terrace revealed an elite district composed of plazas, paved roads and administrative buildings, with large megara, or great halls used for formal events, at the center.
Systematic excavations in 2009 revealed that the mysterious mound was in fact the buried remains of a Cyclopean terrace, a multistory building foundation constructed of massive boulders typically found only at palaces and important Mycenaean capitals.
A chandelier over the dining table made from resin-coated cow bladders cascades through a double-height space next to a cliff of Cyclopean rocks.
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