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‖ ziggurat, zikkurat|ˈzɪgərət, ˈzɪk-|
[Assyrian ziqquratu (also zigg-, sig(g)-, -ur(r)at) height, pinnacle, top of a mountain, temple-tower; cf. zaqaru to be high (Muss-Arnolt).]
a. A staged tower of pyramid form in which each successive storey is smaller than that below it, so as to leave a terrace all round; an Assyrian or Babylonian temple-tower.
1877tr. Lenormat's Chaldæan Magic xv. 227 The ziggurrat or sacred tower of the palace of Khorsabad. 1883P. H. Hunter Story of Daniel ix. 156 In all directions rise the lofty ziggurats or towers of the temples. 1898Engl. Hist. Rev. Jan. 5 The ziggurat, or great tower, of which the Tower of Babel was a famous example. 1908Expositor May 402 The zikkurats at Erech and Borsippa.
b. transf. and fig.
1959Times 21 Oct. 11/3 The burnished ziggurats of copper saucepans. 1970Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 30 Oct. 26/3 The bags are abandoned, of course, and join the rest of the overkill of trash imagery, now heaped into ziggurats, festooning vegetation, scrawled in livid drifts on the downs. 1979Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts Nov. 761/1 His Dallas Chapel in the form of a spiral ziggurat..borrows quite directly from the ninth-century minaret at Samarra. 1980Bee Culture July 376 The photograph will give an idea of the real engineering performed to make this temple a ‘ziggurat’ of comb—upward from the base above the regular [honey]combs. |