Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A temple hewn out of the solid rock, as at Ellora in Hindustan, and elsewhere.
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Examples
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Abou Simbel, No. 1, the magnificent rock-temple façade.
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Strange shapes, like those in a Hindoo rock-temple, were ranged along into the darkness.
Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside Emily Mayer Higgins
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But nothing equals these vast serene faces of the Pharaohs on the great rock-temple of Abou Simbel (Ipsambul) (No. 1, F. 307).
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From the towering south gable of that rock-temple to God the Creator, which the map calls
The Book of the National Parks Robert Sterling Yard 1903
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For instance, when you had disappeared into the Forest of the Incas, I got the first whisper of your strange adventures and discoveries in the buried cities of Eudori from a correspondent of _The Journal of Adventure_ long before the details given in _The Times_ of the rock-temple of the primeval savages, where only remained the little dragon serpents, whose giant ancestors were rudely sculptured on the sacrificial altar.
The Lady of the Shroud Bram Stoker 1879
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Four of these, each seventy feet in height, form the façade of the marvellous rock-temple of Ipsambul -- "the finest of its class known to exist anywhere" -- and constitute one of the most impressive sights which the world has to offer.
Ancient Egypt George Rawlinson 1857
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