Cyclopean

See also: cyclopean

English

Etymology

From the German after the Cyclopes, mythical primitive race.

Adjective

Cyclopean (comparative more Cyclopean, superlative most Cyclopean)

  1. Suggestive of a Cyclops.
  2. (architecture) Of a style of ancient masonry where walls are fitted together of huge irregular stones; ancient and roughly composed.
  • For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:Cyclopean.

Alternative forms

Derived terms

Cyclopean architecture

References

  • Sturgis, Russel. Cyclopean, in A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical,... MacMillan Co.:1901.

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