rock-shelter
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of rock-shelter
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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I also passed a rock-shelter, which served as a permanent home.
From Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan by Carl Lumholtz
Only one race, however, that named after the rock-shelter of Crô-Magnon in the Dordogne, is represented by a fair number of specimens, namely, about a dozen.
From Progress and History by Francis Sydney Marvin
My rock-shelter is hedged about with prickly thorns and thistles….
From The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) by Nahum Slouschz
Then he hunts himself out a hollow tree or rock-shelter, curls himself up quietly to sleep, and snores away the whole livelong winter.
From Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Grant Allen
A human parietal with a piece missing that had evidently been taken out, was found beneath the rock-shelter of Entre-Roches near Angouleme.
From Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples by N. D'Anvers
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