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Cyclopean
[ sahy-kluh-pee-uhn, sahy-klop-ee-uhn ]
Cyclopean
/ ˌsaɪkləʊˈpiːən; saɪˈkləʊpɪən /
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
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Origin of Cyclopean1
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Example Sentences
At the extremity of the cavern, which was oblong, rose a Cyclopean archivolte, singularly exact in form.
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The Cyclopean doors that we hung, with sliding bolts fit to be “the mast of some great admiral”!
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Most of the Mycenaean walls, on the other hand, are of "Cyclopean" style, in large irregular blocks.
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His speeches were Cyclopean cries, at the sight of the truth breaking, like the sun, on his mind.
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The masonry is of different character from that cyclopean piling of boulders which was all the earlier men had known of building.
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