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Definition of Pagodas
1. pagoda [n] - See also: pagoda
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pagodas
Literary usage of Pagodas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Things Chinese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with China by James Dyer Ball (1893)
"The great majority of pagodas in China are ancient, and in Chinese scenery take
... pagodas arc usually of seven or nine stories in height. though any odd ..."
2. The English Illustrated Magazine (1888)
"pagodas, AURIOLES, AND UMBRELLAS. PART I. OF all the eccentricities of Oriental
architecture, few are so remarkable, or have given rise to so much ..."
3. The Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1868)
"Large In each of these chambers is a marble slab, numbers of pagodas, ...
Before the city was of these little pagodas is about four hundred, ..."
4. Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and (1881)
"The height of the principal of these three pagodas is said to be 344 ft.
; according to some, however, it does not exceed 120 to 123 feet. ..."
5. The Chinese Repository edited by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Willaims (1850)
"This distinction needs to be attended to in reading hooks on China, for a large
proportion of the pagodas here have no temples attached to them. ..."
6. The Burman, His Life and Notions by James George Scott (1882)
"pagodas. SOME one with a greater regard for alliteration than the truth once said
that the principal productions of Burma were pagodas, ..."
7. A Tour of the Missions: Observations and Conclusions by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1918)
"The pagodas are usually solid structures of brick, with facings of plaster, ...
But the greatest of all the Burmese pagodas, the Shwe Dagon of Rangoon, ..."
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