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Definition of Cyclopean masonry
1. Noun. A primitive style of masonry characterized by use of massive stones of irregular shape and size.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyclopean Masonry
Literary usage of Cyclopean masonry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Picturesque Sicily by William Agnew Paton (1897)
"XXV A CITY IN CLOUD-LAND Three Gates of Eryx—Astarte, Aphrodite, Venus, Madonna—
cyclopean masonry—" A Street in Bagdad"—The Castle of Eryx—Shrine of ..."
2. Observations in the East: Chiefly in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Asia Minor by John Price Durbin (1845)
"cyclopean masonry.— Pantheon.—Temple of the Sun.—Traces of Christian Antiquity.—Of
Egyptian Antiquity.—Of Roman and Arabian Dominion.—Return to Bey- rout. ..."
3. Mycenae: A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries at Mycenæ and Tiryns by Heinrich Schliemann, William Ewart Gladstone (1880)
"Discovery and description of another tomb in the Acropolis outside the Agora—Its
cyclopean masonry like that of the five sepulchres—The golden trinkets of ..."
4. Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania by Thomas Smart Hughes (1820)
"... —cyclopean masonry—Historical Inquiry into the Origin and Character of the
Cyclopes, 8fC.—Architecture introduced by them, wth its subsequent ..."
5. Handbook of Construction Cost by Halbert Powers Gillette (1922)
"... 1630 cu. yd. were cyclopean masonry placed in a second shift operated a few
nights, and includes a little work done on one Sunday. ..."
6. Chambers's encyclopædia by Chambers W. and R., ltd (1874)
"The walls of Tiryns, near Nauplia—alluded to by Homer—are an example of the ruder
style of cyclopean masonry. They are of irregular ..."
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