Definition of "temples" []

• Plural form of temple. (noun)

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• "Convened via Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr posts, on Thursday evening about 20 people made their way from the Museum of Modern Art to the New Museum of Contemporary Art to a downtown gallery, protesting what they say is the conflation of art and commerce, the snobbery of the art market, and high ticket prices at museums, which they called the "temples of the cultural elite.""
• "The first group is what I called the temples, as if the stock market were some kind of religion."
• "Tantric-like techniques were taught in Greek temples of Venus by Her harlot-priestesses, the venerii."