Fingal's Cave

American  

[fing-guhlz] / ˈfɪŋ gəlz /

noun

1. a cave on the island of Staffa, in the Hebrides, Scotland. 227 feet (69 meters) long; 42 feet (13 meters) wide.

2. (italics) an overture, opus 26, composed in 1832 by Felix Mendelssohn.

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Fingal's Cave British  

/ ˈfɪŋɡəlz /

noun

1. a cave in W Scotland, on Staffa Island in the Inner Hebrides: basaltic pillars. Length: 69 m (227 ft). Height: 36 m (117 ft)

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Example Sentences

Boat excursions to Staffa, a nearby island, offer the geological marvel Fingal’s Cave and puffin sightings.

From Washington Post • Nov. 24, 2021

Cocoons of glistening ice in Vatnajökull glacier, Iceland; geometric Fingal’s Cave in Scotland; echoey mouths of darkness in Mexico’s cenotes.

From The Guardian • Aug. 23, 2019

Alex Guttenplan Basalt forms the distinctive columnar strata of the Giant's Causeway in Ireland and the similar structures found on which island in the Inner Hebrides, the location of Fingal's Cave?

From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2010

Mendelssohn's pleasant, pictorial Fingal's Cave began the concert, Beethoven's great Fifth gave it significance.�ED.

From Time Magazine Archive

The most magnificent of all known caverns, is that called Fingal’s Cave, in the Isle of Staffa, on the western coast of Scotland.

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