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speluncar, a.|spɛˈlʌŋkɑː(r)|
[f. L. spelunca.]
1. Having relation or reference to a cave.
1855Ecclesiologist XVI. 295 What Mr. Scott calls the speluncar idea, is thus fully carried out. 1861A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedr. 19th C. iii. 85 Mr. Burges..bases his plan upon what has been called, by a self-explanatory term, the speluncar principle of tropical architecture.
2. Of the nature of a cave.
1865Sat. Rev. 11 Feb. 181 Nor would these speluncar chambers gain much in artistic value..were the point gained. |