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Definition of Minarets

1. minaret [n] - See also: minaret

Lexicographical Neighbors of Minarets

Literary usage of Minarets

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern Times by Matthew Atmore Sherring, Fitzedward Hall (1868)
"It is plain and common-place ; and, were it not for the minarets rising ... The minarets themselves have a delicate gracefulness about them which it is ..."

2. Russian Central Asia: Including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv by Henry Lansdell (1885)
"What end these lofty towers served is not clear, unless to call the Muhammadans to prayer. It seems THE minarets OK KL'NIA ..."

3. Old Morocco and the Forbidden Atlas by Clarence Edward Andrews (1922)
"Four minarets AND PALACES THE great square of Marrakesh, so strangely called the "Meeting Place of the Dead," has been the center of life in the city ever ..."

4. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1887)
"All three crown the range of limestone hills through which the Indus has here cut its way, and the minarets and houses, especially in Rohri, overhang the ..."

5. The Old World in Its New Face: Impressions of Europe in 1867-1868 by Henry Whitney Bellows (1869)
"From the midst of them start up in great abundance domes, beautiful and varied in shape, but rude in material, and minarets beginning square, ..."

6. The City of the Sultan, and Domestic Manners of the Turks: With a Steam by Pardoe (Julia) (1854)
"... of Sultan Mahmoud—Dervishes—Eastern Jews—Evening— Illuminated minarets—Romance versus Reason—Pain at Parting—Custom-nonse of Calata—The East versus the ..."

7. Russia in Central Asia in 1889 and the Anglo-Russian Question by George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon (1889)
"... minarets— Material of structure—Samples of the best Arabian style—Ruins of Bibi ... minarets ..."

8. A Oriental Biographical Dictionary: Founded on Materials Collected by the by Thomas William Beale, Henry George Keene (1881)
"... all the remarkable places present themselves to us, and the eye loses itself in the vast number of cupolas, domes, and minarets crowded together. ..."

9. The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern Times by Matthew Atmore Sherring, Fitzedward Hall (1868)
"It is plain and common-place ; and, were it not for the minarets rising ... The minarets themselves have a delicate gracefulness about them which it is ..."

10. Russian Central Asia: Including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv by Henry Lansdell (1885)
"What end these lofty towers served is not clear, unless to call the Muhammadans to prayer. It seems THE minarets OK KL'NIA ..."

11. Old Morocco and the Forbidden Atlas by Clarence Edward Andrews (1922)
"Four minarets AND PALACES THE great square of Marrakesh, so strangely called the "Meeting Place of the Dead," has been the center of life in the city ever ..."

12. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1887)
"All three crown the range of limestone hills through which the Indus has here cut its way, and the minarets and houses, especially in Rohri, overhang the ..."

13. The Old World in Its New Face: Impressions of Europe in 1867-1868 by Henry Whitney Bellows (1869)
"From the midst of them start up in great abundance domes, beautiful and varied in shape, but rude in material, and minarets beginning square, ..."

14. The City of the Sultan, and Domestic Manners of the Turks: With a Steam by Pardoe (Julia) (1854)
"... of Sultan Mahmoud—Dervishes—Eastern Jews—Evening— Illuminated minarets—Romance versus Reason—Pain at Parting—Custom-nonse of Calata—The East versus the ..."

15. Russia in Central Asia in 1889 and the Anglo-Russian Question by George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon (1889)
"... minarets— Material of structure—Samples of the best Arabian style—Ruins of Bibi ... minarets ..."

16. A Oriental Biographical Dictionary: Founded on Materials Collected by the by Thomas William Beale, Henry George Keene (1881)
"... all the remarkable places present themselves to us, and the eye loses itself in the vast number of cupolas, domes, and minarets crowded together. ..."

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