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  • adjective Having a minaret or minarets.

Etymologies

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minaret +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • North and south, the horizon was a chaotic sky land of pinnacles, spired and minareted, steepled and turreted and domed, each diademed with its green and argent of eternal ice and snow.

    The Metal Monster 2004

  • She only had one lamp lit, that lovely minareted Garian case which dappled gold about the room.

    The Vatican Rip Gash, Jonathan 1981

  • Thereafter the train travels through a Swiss country of alps and pine woods, with here and there a minareted village, until it goes into a long wooded gorge, which has one superb moment: where two rivers meet, they thunder down on each side of a great rock that has been sharpened by ages of their force to a razor-edged prow.

    Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part V 1969

  • Here and there a temple stood, minareted and grotesquely ornamented with the bloodsmeared effigies of gods.

    Starways Anderson, Poul 1956

  • But some were straight and tall, some were squat and fairy-colored and others blossomed from thin stalks into impossibly bulbous, minareted domes, like long-stemmed tulips reproduced in stone.

    The Sky Is Falling Lester Del Rey 1954

  • Thereafter the train travels through a Swiss country of alps and pine woods, with here and there a minareted village, until it goes into a long wooded gorge, which has one superb moment: where two rivers meet, they thunder down on each side of a great rock that has been sharpened by ages of their force to a razor-edged prow.

    Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part V 1941

  • London, the paradisian pudding _sueldoiro_ on the little screened veranda in the shadow of the six-minareted Mosque of El-Azhar in Cairo, the salmon dipped in Chambertin and the artichokes, sauce Barigoule, at

    Europe After 8:15 George Jean Nathan 1920

  • When they again came to the surface, Bertha Kircher saw that they were in a large lagoon and that the bright stars were shining high above them, while on either hand domed and minareted buildings were silhouetted sharply against the starlit sky.

    Tarzan the Untamed 1920

  • Forks Mount Merritt rises 9,944 feet in altitude, minareted like a mediæval fort and hollow as a bowl, its gaping chasm hung with glaciers.

    The Book of the National Parks Robert Sterling Yard 1903

  • There are no pinnacled heights, no stratified, minareted walls, no precipiced cirques and glacier-shrouded peaks.

    The Book of the National Parks Robert Sterling Yard 1903

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