Word: minareted
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Scarcely less famed is the Ardebil carpet, now in London's Victoria & Albert Museum. A body of rich blue with delicate floral tracery surrounds a centre medallion of yellow. Sixteen minaret-shaped points lead to 16 red, gold, and green cartouches. Sacred mosque lamps hang from two of them...
...Huge cookies (of cork) are set in the giddily striped and curlicued walls. A six-foot painted knight in gaudy armor on a painted horse spins from a turret as a weather vane. A gigantic black cat arches his cast stone back on the top of a sugar-stick minaret. A trained seal on a barber's pole is balancing a whirling ball on the tip of his nose. Up the balustrade of the exterior staircase stalks a procession of pink elephants, rhinoceroses. The interior is even stranger, with carved witches and fairies, gnomes and children, a giant metal...
...Robert Hichens' novel* he seemed to be on an easy road to a masterpiece. No expense was spared to send the company into the Sahara, where they filmed a sandstorm rolling the dunes around like waves, strange natives, bowing down to weird customs, priests of Allah calling from minaret...
...becoming very dilapidated since the government took charge of them Most of them are built with alternate courses of red and white stone and have domes which contain the tombs. There are no seats in them and the worshipper is obliged to take off his shoes upon entering. The minaret is invariably a feature of a mosque, and is a tall tower from whose gallery the priest summons to prayer. The chief mode of conveyance is the donkey, and the city is full of these strong little beasts, posted at every corner in charge of boys. The population...