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Definition of Cliff dwelling
1. Noun. A rock and adobe dwelling built on sheltered ledges in the sides of a cliff. "The Anasazi built cliff dwellings in the southwestern United States"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cliff Dwelling
Literary usage of Cliff dwelling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne (1903)
"... winding, verdurous street —The parent of stucco villas—Inactivity of individual
conscience — A plateau and a cliff - dwelling—"The Campbells are Coming! ..."
2. Archeological Explorations in Northeastern Arizona by Alfred Vincent Kidder, Samuel James Guernsey (1919)
"... therefore, that these mounds were summer residences of the cliff- dwelling
people, where they lived in perishable brush houses like the Navaho summer ..."
3. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"A form of cliff dwelling ; a little house, or small group of houses, built by
American Indians of the Pueblo type in a recess of a cliff, for a shelter ..."
4. The Story of the American Indian: His Origin, Development, Decline and Destiny by Elbridge Streeter Brooks (1887)
"A CLIFF-DWELLING —" THE LAST REFUGE OF A HUNTED PEOPLE." The canons of the
Colorado, the sandstone-cliffs of Arizona, New Mexico and Southern Colorado, ..."
5. Introduction to the Study of North America Archaeology by Cyrus Thomas (1898)
"Cliff-dwelling on the Rio of a sheer precipice. Thirty Mancos. feet below, in a
similar niche, is the large house, with a long line of apertures. ..."
6. A study of Pueblo pottery as illustrative of Zuñi culture growth by Frank Hamilton Cushing (1886)
"... the numerous rock-shelters, but they could also cultivate their crops in
comparative safety along the limited tracts FIG. 498.—A typical cliff-dwelling. ..."
7. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1898)
"The following is his description: This cliff dwelling is the best preserved of
all the ruins on the Verda. It also seems as if the «lehne« ture of the Cliff ..."
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