Definition of Nurhags

1. nurhag [n] - See also: nurhag

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nurhags

nuptual
nupur
nuqta
nuque
nur
nuraghe
nuraghi
nuraghic
nurd
nurdle
nurdled
nurdles
nurdling
nurds
nurhag
nurhags (current term)
nurikabe
nurl
nurled
nurling
nurls
nurn
nurnie
nurnies
nurr
nurrs
nurs
nurse's aide
nurse-in

Literary usage of Nurhags

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

1. An Historical Inquiry Into the True Principles of Beauty in Art, More by James Fergusson (1849)
"THE nurhags of Sardinia form a class of monuments belonging to the period of which this volume treats, but scarcely sufficient in importance to entitle them ..."

2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1880)
"There is historic reference to the nurhags of Sardinia, and even their builder, ... There are some portions of these nurhags which appear of an older date, ..."

3. Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and Uses by James Fergusson (1872)
"The nurhags are placed at such distances as to aft'ord no support to one ... Had the four detached nurhags at Santa Barbara been connected with walls only, ..."

4. Sardinia and Its Resources by Robert Tennant (1885)
"From the fact that many of these sepolture are found near to nurhags, some writers have come to the conclusion that the two structures had some sort of ..."

5. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"called nurhags (variously spelled also nuraghe, nuraghi, etc. ... Next to the nurhags the most interesting of the remains of antiquity are the so- called ..."

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