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Palenque

[ pah-leng-ke ]

noun

  1. a village in SE Mexico, in Chiapas state: ruins of an ancient Mayan city.


Palenque

/ paˈleŋke /

noun

  1. the site of an ancient Mayan city in S Mexico famous for its architectural ruins
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

With me is David Graff, a German journalist and guide at Palenque Tours in Colombia, who is acting as my translator.

The estancia itself consisted of a group of ranchos, in front of which two ombues shaded the palenque, where horses were tied.

Some attempts have been made to decipher the meaning of the Palenque tablets, considering the three pieces as a whole.

We may say, then, that in Palenque every Maya baby below ten months of age was sacral spotted, and that no Mestizo baby was.

Students of architecture find a rudimentary form of the arch occurring in some of the ruins, notably at Palenque.

Many of the sculptures in Copan and Palenque to which we have referred contain pictographs and hieroglyphs.

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