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minaret
noun as in belfry
noun as in column
noun as in tower
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The minaret was her husband's idea, and he sketched the initial design.
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She watched one tear the minaret off the top of the building.
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He saw the gloriously skewed al-Hadba minaret, known as the "hunchback", which had been emblematic of Mosul for hundreds of years, in ruins.
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One video surfaced of residents rushing to mosques to announce from minarets that “the dog Bashar has fallen.”
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The minaret of every mosque they passed was toppled, he said.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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