tower of silence

American  

[tou-er] / ˈtaʊ ər /

noun

1. a circular stone platform, typically 30 feet (9.1 meters) in height, on which the Parsees of India leave their dead to be devoured by vultures.

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Example Sentences

At the end of the book, from her hospital window, Miss Batchelor sees the wheeling carrion birds of a Parsi tower of silence.

From Time Magazine Archive

Emancipation has only locked the saint in the same tower of silence as the heresiarch.

From Heretics by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

The pale 247 shadder of the real tower of silence has fell on ’em all and silenced ’em.

From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Holley, Marietta

A few miles southeast of Teheran, in a desolate, unfrequented spot, is the guebre "tower of silence," where they dispose of their dead.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran by Stevens, Thomas

There is a tower of silence, and the bell   Moves up—another man is made to be.

From The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala by Baerlein, Henry