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- noun Plural form of
stele .
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Examples
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One of his steles, which is now in the Imperial Ottoman Museum at Constantinople, depicts him as a fully bearded man with Semitic characteristics.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904
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Ionic and Corinthian monuments, however, as well as minor works such as steles, altars, etc., were richly adorned with carved mouldings and friezes, festoons, acroteria, and other embellishments executed with the chisel.
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890
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Words I'm surprised Word do know: caravanserais, steles
i am tired. i am weary. i could sleep for a thousand years. matociquala 2009
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She sat on the floor with Nathaniel as the Shadowhunters moved around her, drawing on one another with their steles.
Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare 2010
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They call it the Glass City because its towers are shaped from the same demon-repelling substance as our steles; in the sunlight they sparkle like glass.
Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009
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All steles had a sort of aura to them, a ghostly imprint of their owners personality.
Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009
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The landscape eclipses the figures turns into stems steles
Archive 2009-09-01 David McDuff 2009
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Also, in regard to the issue of gnostics and inscriptions on steles attributed to Seth, Josephus in his Antiquities of the Jews mentions a pillar made by Seth.
4QInstruction and Sethian Gnosticism James F. McGrath 2009
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Everywhere was the flash of steles as Downworlders and Shadowhunters came together in pairs and Marked each other.
Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009
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It took them a short while with their steles to break in through the locked gates, and another while to find a spot hidden enough for Raphael to begin digging.
Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009
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Chase-Riboud describes her monumental abstract forms as “steles”, evoking the ancient Egyptian carved stones at Karnak or Luxor.
Barbara Chase-Riboud: ‘The so-called culture war has nothing to do with culture’ Hettie Judah 2022
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