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  • n  the usually cylindrical central vascular portion of the axis of a vascular plant
  • n  an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings

  • The divers flipped it over to read Egyptian hieroglyphs on a stele that had been perfectly preserved for nearly 2,000 years.
  • The impassive faces on this vessel, broad, empty-eyed and surrounded by heavy, cranklike forms, could almost have come from a Mayan stele.
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    I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I was never a huge fan of the Audi R8's in the aesthetics department. It was a mid-engined V8 beast with a hushed exhaust note, slits instead of eyes, and a big Egyptian stele for a nose. But in all black, I think I finally get it. It's menacing. Read more...
    Nov. 16, 2013 - Jalopnik
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  • Genevieve in ABC Online
    We have in this hall, for example, a Greek funerary stele next to a Roman sarcophagus. At the Louvre, one would be found in the Roman department and the other in the Greek section,Genevieve Bresc said, a Louvre curator.

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