Definition of "minarets" []

• Plural form of minaret. (noun)

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• "Not a line is straight; the tall dead walls of the mosques slope over their massy buttresses, and the thin minarets seem about to fall across your path."
• "This entire passage borrows heavily from Franklin's description, in which he writes: the ascent to the minarets is by a winding stair-case ... at the top the spectator is gratified by"
• "The result was a victory for the Swiss People's Party which called minarets symbols of Muslim political power which threatens to transform Switzerland into an Islamic nation."