the Western Wall

Cultural  

1. A wall in the old city of Jerusalem (see also Jerusalem), whose stones may have formed part of the Temple of Solomon. Sometimes called the Wailing Wall, it is visited in great numbers by Jews (see also Jews) as a holy place that commemorates their sorrows from earliest times.

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Example Sentences

The western wall of Hitler's Europe will see the full moon on Jan. 10, Feb. 9, March 10, April 8.

From Time Magazine Archive

The western wall was completely covered with shelf after shelf of CDs.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

The western wall of the interior is faced with niches, in which the statues seem to emerge from a cloud of gloom.

From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1 by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)

The western wall is composed of larger stones laid up more roughly with less chinking, and appears to have been a later addition.

From The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 by Mindeleff, Cosmos

The western wall of the tower was black with them; so were the gravestones and the gravel.

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh