Pentelikon

American  

[pen-tel-i-kon, pen-de-lee-kawn] / pɛnˈtɛl ɪˌkɒn, ˌpɛn dɛ liˈkɔn /

noun

1. Pendelikon.

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Pentelikon British  

/ pɛnˈtɛlɪkɒn /

noun

1. Latin name: Pentelicus.  a mountain in SE Greece, near Athens: famous for its white marble, worked regularly from the 6th century _bc , from which the chief buildings and sculptures in Athens are made. Height: 1109 m (3638 ft)

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Example Sentences

Pentelikon that had supplied materials for the original building.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not so Author Alexander Eliot, 43, an out-of-place, out-of-sorts, self-styled recluse who, on the pine-clad slopes of Mount Pentelikon, near Athens, pondered the question, put down his answer in the dozen meditations of this new book.

From Time Magazine Archive

The stars rained down their incandescent spears in sharply patterned salvos upon Mount Pentelikon and me.

From Time Magazine Archive

She lies upon her ivory bed, robed in the soft stuffs of Tyre, as if new-cut from Pentelikon by Phidias, or spread upon the wood by the magic brush of Zeuxis, seeming as much alive as this, no more, no less.

From Project Gutenberg

The mountains and hills rose all around us, Lykabettos, Kolonos—the home of Sophocles—Hymettos, and Pentelikon with its marble quarries, made an undulating line of gray against the horizon, while away at the left was the Hill of Mars.

From Project Gutenberg