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Monks' Mound

American  

noun

  1. the largest of the Cahokia Mounds.


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Both combatants fell dead upon the ground; and possibly some rational people may think of them, as of the gloomy madmen on the Monks' Mound, that they were no great loss to the community.

From American Notes by Dickens, Charles

They came to the Monks' Mound, and sat down.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various