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What does Cyclopean mean?

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Adjective
  1. Suggestive of a Cyclops.
  2. (architecture) Of a style of ancient masonry where walls are fitted together of huge irregular stones; ancient and roughly composed.
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Cyclopean Image: A mental 3D image created by the brain when it combines images perceived by two eyes.
Sometimes the chulpas are round, and in some the masonry is of that variety we have already mentioned, called the Cyclopean.
Incorporated into its elaborate frame are two miniature pairs of binoculars, a pince-nez and a bulbous, Cyclopean glass eye.
Her Cyclopean walls, that seemed to render her impregnable, did not save her.
The cell was large, and if it was the bottom of a well, it must have been a Cyclopean one.
Scattered over the surface of the Peruvian slope are Cyclopean ruins, the sole remnants of the works of a more primeval people.

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