Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dwelling of stone on a shelf or recess of a cliff, accessible only by steep paths, steps, or ladders.
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Examples
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A photographer friend, Marty Stupich, had taken pictures of the cliff from an airplane and enlarged them in a five-foot-long photograph on which I could mark the nests of cliff-dwelling birds.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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A photographer friend, Marty Stupich, had taken pictures of the cliff from an airplane and enlarged them in a five-foot-long photograph on which I could mark the nests of cliff-dwelling birds.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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A photographer friend, Marty Stupich, had taken pictures of the cliff from an airplane and enlarged them in a five-foot-long photograph on which I could mark the nests of cliff-dwelling birds.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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A photographer friend, Marty Stupich, had taken pictures of the cliff from an airplane and enlarged them in a five-foot-long photograph on which I could mark the nests of cliff-dwelling birds.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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So, some of the cliff-dwelling ruins at Mesa Verde, or similar sites, were used for religious purposes.
An 8-foot-tall cross in Mojave National Preserve, set up by the VFW in 1934 as a war memorial, maintained by the National Park Service. Ann Althouse 2009
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Notable plant species include tree ferns (Angiopteris evecta) with 9-meter-wide canopies in Moorean valleys and a scandent cliff-dwelling Metrosideros sp.
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It is part of a settlement complex in a small valley that included another cliff-dwelling unfortunately destroyed and pithouse dwellings on the valley floor.
Sinagua 2006
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The beautiful cliff-dwelling in the picture above is Montezuma's Castle.
Sinagua 2006
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This is Montezuma's Well, about four miles away from the cliff-dwelling.
Sinagua 2006
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The beautiful cliff-dwelling in the picture above is Montezuma's Castle.
Archive 2006-09-01 2006
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