(n.) A natural covered opening in the earth; a cave; also, an artificial recess, cave, or cavernlike apartment.
Example Sentences:
(1) FIVE MORE FRENCH COASTAL GEMS Marseille grotto Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A 40-minute walk from Marseille’s Luminy university campus, Calanque de Sugiton, the most picturesque of the city’s rugged, limestone coves has blue-green waters, twisted pine trees and a narrow island-rock to swim out to known as Le Torpilleur.
(2) The Scandinavian obsession with elves and fairy folk at Christmas has become entrenched, with elf training schools and forest grottoes springing up in every patch of woodland.
(3) The Lapland New Forest attraction drew criticism back in 2008, with its brawling elves, sad-looking animals and muddy grotto.
(4) Closer Genocider sounds like Suicide in a Silver Machine and pivots on a simulated two-chord loop or locked groove that goes on seemingly forever, or at least until that stained glass window-lined grotto of unconventional thought starts appearing in your mind's eye.
(5) Don't expect sandy beaches, do expect iridescent turquoise seas (especially in the Blue Grotto sea cave), fresh seafood, and a laid-back, unhurried lifestyle that would seduce even the nerviest banker into blissful lethargy.
(6) Top tip: The 13-mile Eagle Creek trail isn’t for the faint of heart as it sometimes skirts the edge of sheer cliffs, but the rewards are well worth the scares: at Punchbowl Falls, water spills 30 metres down into a blue-green grotto, and at Tunnel Falls the trail passes through a tunnel behind a spectacular sheet of falling water.
(7) Lord Cobham built the New Inn in 1717 to feed and water visitors to the extraordinary front garden at his palatial home at Stowe: 250 acres studded with temples, columns, arches, obelisks, cascades, grottoes, and lakes.
(8) Gary McNair: War on Christmas Anyone who has ever felt like saying “Bah, humbug!” to the John Lewis ad will find a kindred spirit in Gary McNair, playing a Santa working in a down-at-heel Christmas grotto who decides to investigate what Christmas means if you are poor.
(9) You expect to stumble into an artist's grotto, cluttered with the debris of a creative genius at work.
(10) The mechansim of action of climatotherapy in the grotto and the indication of treatment are discussed.
(11) Father Christmas in his grotto at Harrods department store, Knightsbridge, London.
(12) His optimism is shared in Dunhuang, a city of ancient Buddhist grottoes and ultramodern solar farms where China's first 10MW demonstration photovoltaic plant waits to be connected to the state grid.
(13) You can tell that Julian Cope might be a fan, that reviewers are going to be drawing comparisons with Ash Ra Tempel, and that they would make people come away from their concerts saying things like: "My head is throbbing like a stained glass window-lined grotto of unconventional thought and atavistic proto-religious impulses ."
(14) O’Francese (+39 329 006 6424) on the main beach is the only bar and it also rents whitewashed grottos that were once fishermen’s dwellings (doubles from €120 half-board).
(15) After a day sunbathing, stroll along the picturesque ancient Roman harbour made of colourful fishermen dwellings and prehistoric grottos turned into studios, and where evening drinks are served on rooftops.
(16) In the "Beke" grotto of Jósvafö 222 patients with an obstructive syndrome (respiratory blast value below 70) wer examined for the therapeutic results of therapy, with treatment made for five hours a day and for an overall period of three weeks.
(17) It’s a labyrinth of orange-purple sea grottos, talcum powder-like beaches, white granite rocks and pirates caves where scuba divers still search for hidden treasures.
(18) For something a little more sedate, the Walpole Bay is hosting two seaside-themed vintage film nights ( 16 September and 14 October) arranged by the Friends of the Shell Grotto, including Magical Margate (circa 1919) and The Belle of Kent (1958).
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest One of Ponza’s many beautiful grottoes.
(20) Way to go Getting there Benmo (0845 250 8119, benmo.com ) offers a 10-day package that includes the Sunday market in Kashgar, Turfan oasis and Buddhist Grottoes at Dunhuang, Xian and Beijing departing from Heathrow 25 February, 2010 from £1695pp, including all flights, with tailor-made tours available on earlier dates.
Shrine
Definition:
(n.) A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint.
(n.) Any sacred place, as an altar, tromb, or the like.
(n.) A place or object hallowed from its history or associations; as, a shrine of art.
(v. t.) To enshrine; to place reverently, as in a shrine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stonehenge stood at the heart of a sprawling landscape of chapels, burial mounds, massive pits and ritual shrines, according to an unprecedented survey of the ancient grounds.
(2) And Islamist extremists desecrated shrines built by Sufi Muslims and the graves of British soldiers.
(3) But this time warp is a Seville one, and all the statues of (ecclesiastical) virgins, winged cherubs, shrines and other Catholic paraphernalia, plus portraits of the late Duchess of Alba, give it a unique spirit, as do the clientele – largely local, despite Garlochí’s international fame as the city’s most kitsch bar.
(4) Four explosions hit the southern Damascus district of Sayeda Zeinab, where a revered Shia shrine is located, leaving 62 dead and 180 injured, according to the Observatory.
(5) Officials in Pakistan say they have killed at least 39 suspected militants in a sweeping security crackdown a day after a massive bombing claimed by Islamic State killed 88 people and injured hundreds more at a crowded shrine.
(6) Iran: 12 dead as Islamic State claims attacks on parliament and shrine Read more The mausoleum where Khomeini was laid to rest almost exactly 28 years ago, on 6 June 1989, is an enormous complex dominating the skyline south of Tehran.
(7) Built in 1869, the shrine deifies almost 2.5 million Japanese soldiers and civilians who died in wars since the second half of the 19th century.
(8) Francis, however, said the treatment hospital was a "shrine to human suffering" that emphasised the need to confront the scourge of drugs through education, justice and stronger social values.
(9) So intense was the pre‑match excitement in Dortmund over the return of the prodigal Jürg – much of it media-led – that walking around this flat, functional city on the afternoon of the game you half expected to stumble across Klopp shrines, New Orleans-style Klopp jazz funerals, to look up and find his great beaming visage looming over the city like some vast alien saucer.
(10) Then, in December, Abe paid a visit to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, where 14 war criminals from the second world war are honored.
(11) US secretary of state John Kerry lights a candle and lays roses at the 'shrine of the fallen' for protesters killed in Kiev.
(12) While there is little prospect of summit talks, Abe said he wanted to explain the reasons behind his visit to the shrine to Chinese leader Xi Jinping and South Korean president Park Geun-hye.
(13) Behind them, hundreds more slowly make their way up the steps in front of the hidden main sanctuary, waiting their turn to pray at Ise Jingu , Japan’s most revered Shinto shrine.
(14) But to do Hakone justice, find a reasonably priced ryokan and take a couple of days to explore the volcanic geysers of Owakudani, the botanical gardens, the cherry blossom in spring and Hakone shrine on the shore of the lake.
(15) Mourners pay tribute to the victim at a makeshift shrine in Delhi.
(16) Grace Roffe Idyllic village, Nepal Facebook Twitter Pinterest The entrance to the village shrine, Kakani.
(17) Read more While their main aim is to prevent the building becoming a shrine for the steady stream of neo-Nazi supporters who still make their way to Braunau, there has been an ongoing discussion over what more positive purpose it might serve.
(18) Although the double-decker bus height sarsens are undoubtedly the most impressive, Darvill and Wainwright believe they were essentially an architectural framework for the bluestones, just as towering medieval cathedrals grew over the shrines of saints.
(19) The Muslim Brotherhood's leader, Mohamed Badie, had earlier stoked tensions by calling Sisi's overthrow of Morsi a more heinous crime than the destruction of Islam's most sacred shrine.
(20) Ise Shrine is clearly an important historical and cultural site, so it would usually not be seen as a problematic place to visit,” said Mark Mullins, professor of Japanese studies at the University of Auckland.