2. Verb. (third-person singular of tope) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Topes
1. tope [v] - See also: tope
Lexicographical Neighbors of Topes
Literary usage of Topes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1887)
"found in India which can be proved to have existed before that age. it will be
safe to assume that this is one of the 84000 topes said to have been erected ..."
2. Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and National by John Walter Osborne (1854)
"The Buddhist topes are of three kinds: the first, immense hollow mounds of masonry,
dedicated to the Eternal Buddha ; the second, the Funereal, erected over ..."
3. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"The nations of those quarters call those and the other two mentioned before "
the four great topes." CHAPTER XII Buddha's Alms-bowl—Death of ..."
4. Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and (1881)
"The different arrangement of these parasols, especially when their number increased,
led to a different shape of the topes, such as occurs, for instance, ..."
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