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Definition of Mosques

1. mosque [n] - See also: mosque

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mosques

Literary usage of Mosques

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Then follows a series of mosques:- ... In some of the mosques by ibe side of the portal isa fountain enclosed with bronze grilles, ..."

2. Egypt: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1902)
"The portals began to be placed in recesses, and small cupolas made their appearance in the interior of the mosques. The pointed arch, introduced in the ..."

3. Turkey and the Turks: An Account of the Lands, the Peoples, and the by Will Seymour Monroe (1908)
"Most of the mosques have a court and a fountain in the centre for ablutions. The larger mosques have endowed dependencies, such as colleges, schools, ..."

4. Constantinople by Edwin Augustus Grosvenor (1895)
"Nevertheless, the mosques will last when every other structure of Ottoman ... they have sought to make their mosques as sublime and lasting as the human ..."

5. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1885)
"Approached from the west, the appearance of the city is very striking; the palace and mosques and magnificent pile of buildings erected for the British ..."

6. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Then follows a series of mosques:- ... In some of the mosques by ibe side of the portal isa fountain enclosed with bronze grilles, ..."

7. Egypt: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1902)
"The portals began to be placed in recesses, and small cupolas made their appearance in the interior of the mosques. The pointed arch, introduced in the ..."

8. Turkey and the Turks: An Account of the Lands, the Peoples, and the by Will Seymour Monroe (1908)
"Most of the mosques have a court and a fountain in the centre for ablutions. The larger mosques have endowed dependencies, such as colleges, schools, ..."

9. Constantinople by Edwin Augustus Grosvenor (1895)
"Nevertheless, the mosques will last when every other structure of Ottoman ... they have sought to make their mosques as sublime and lasting as the human ..."

10. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1885)
"Approached from the west, the appearance of the city is very striking; the palace and mosques and magnificent pile of buildings erected for the British ..."

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