mecca
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Turkey also returned "a key of the Kaaba to Egypt" after realising it had ended up in Turkey illegally, she said of the cube-shaped stone structure at Mecca's Grand Mosque.
From Barron's
“That’s Mecca,” said Ted Barrow, a skateboarder and architectural preservationist who has defended the fountain at public hearings.
Saudi Arabia is likely to follow that pattern, allowing alcohol in parts of the country while prohibiting it in religiously sensitive areas such as the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
"People have been asking to come in too, it's just been non-stop, it's a Mecca for Harry Potter fans," he said.
From BBC
Fred dreams of beating his annual sales goal and earning a trip to Palm Springs, Calif., a place he reveres “the way others may have felt about Canterbury or Jerusalem or Mecca.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
