teocalli
noun
a ceremonial structure of the Aztecs, consisting of a truncated terraced pyramid supporting a temple.
teocallis
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pluralof teocalli.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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 Cyrus Townsend Brady
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 Robert Edward Anderson
Many of these structures have a close resemblance to the teocallis of Mexico.
From Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology by John D. (John Denison) Baldwin
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 Thomas Wentworth Higginson
In the case of some teocallis, however, the staircase led directly up the western face of the building.
From The Mythologies of Ancient Mexico and Peru by Lewis Spence
