teocalli
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of teocalli
1605–15; < Nahuatl, equivalent to teō ( tl ) god + calli house
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Hickman County had a teocalli, or temple, ten feet high, thirty feet wide, and four hundred and fifty feet long.
From Stories of Old Kentucky by Purcell, Martha Grassham
The teocalli itself was of the usual pyramidal shape, and five stories high, coated on the outside with hewn stones.
From The True Story Book by Lang, Andrew
Cortés, seeing that he was much agitated, pretended that the demand had come from his followers, and that he would endeavour to persuade them to be contented with one of the sanctuaries of the teocalli.
From The True Story Book by Lang, Andrew
Narvaez, badly wounded, was taken prisoner on the top of a teocalli; and in a very short time his army was glad to capitulate.
From The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West by Anderson, Robert Edward
In the final assault and desperate struggle in the city Cortez led half the Spanish force, and Alvarado the other half; and the latter it was who conducted that memorable storming of the great teocalli.
From The Spanish Pioneers by Lummis, Charles F.
But its stately position makes it rank with the vast sisterhood of wave-washed strongholds; it might be King Arthur's Cornish Tyntagel; it might be "the teocallis tower" of Tuloom.
From Malbone: an Oldport Romance by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
The priests in the great teocallis, or temple pyramids, were beating the great drum of the war-god, Huitzilopocahtli.
From South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure by Brady, Cyrus Townsend
This monument, like all the Mexican teocallis, is composed of several stages.
From Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited by Wilson, Robert A.
So few of the ancient teocallis now remain, and these being nearly the only traces now existing of that extraordinary race, we regretted the more not being able to devote some time to their examination.
From Life in Mexico by Calderón de la Barca, Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis)
Scarcely waiting for his commands the Spaniards moved toward one of the principal teocallis, or temples, which rose high on a pyramidal foundation with a steep ascent of stone steps in the middle.
From The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West by Anderson, Robert Edward
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