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Escorial

[e-skawr-ee-uh l, -skohr-; Spanish es-kaw-ryahl]
noun
  1. a building in central Spain, 27 miles (43 km) NW of Madrid, containing a monastery, palace, church, and mausoleum of the Spanish sovereigns: erected 1563–84.
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Also Escurial.
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Examples from the Web for escorial

Historical Examples

  • The spirit of the Escorial is in one aspect the spirit of Spain.

    Things seen in Spain

    C. Gasquoine Hartley

  • A “Descent from the Cross” now at the Escorial is his most famous picture.

    The Spell of Flanders

    Edward Neville Vose

  • I must record the tremendous impression made on me by Toledo and the Escorial.

    An Autobiography

    Igor Stravinsky

  • Worn out with his disquietudes, he died in the Escorial in the second year of his sojourn.

  • In the Escorial he executed several pictures; one is a Paradise on the vaulting of the church, with a multitude of figures.

British Dictionary definitions for escorial

Escorial

Escurial

noun
  1. a village in central Spain, northwest of Madrid: site of an architectural complex containing a monastery, palace, and college, built by Philip II between 1563 and 1584
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