the Western Wall

Cultural  

1. A wall in the old city of Jerusalem (see also Jerusalem), whose stones may have formed part of the Temple of Solomon. Sometimes called the Wailing Wall, it is visited in great numbers by Jews (see also Jews) as a holy place that commemorates their sorrows from earliest times.

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Example Sentences

The western wall of Hitler's Europe will see the full moon on Jan. 10, Feb. 9, March 10, April 8.

From Time Magazine Archive

The western wall was completely covered with shelf after shelf of CDs.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

The western wall, with the exception of a few mortuary tablets, is quite plain.

From Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See by Fisher, A. Hugh (Alfred Hugh)

The western wall of the tower was black with them; so were the gravestones and the gravel.

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh

The western wall is composed of larger stones laid up more roughly with less chinking, and appears to have been a later addition.

From The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 by Mindeleff, Cosmos