Cyclopean
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From the German after the Cyclops, mythical primitive race.
[edit] Adjective
Cyclopean (comparative more Cyclopean, superlative most Cyclopean)
- Suggestive of a Cyclops.
- (architecture) Of a style of ancient masonry where walls are fitted together of huge irregular stones; ancient and roughly composed.
- For examples of the usage of this term see the citations page.
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[edit] References
- Sturgis, Russel. Cyclopean, in A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical,... MacMillan Co.:1901.[1]
