Chelminar

Chelminar

English

Proper noun

Chelminar

1. (historical, obsolete) Alternative spelling of Chilminar, the ruins of Persepolis.
   • 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 183:

     CHILMINAR, Chelminar, or Tchelminar, the moſt beautiful piece of architecture remaining of all antiquity, being the ruins of the famous palace of Perſopolis, to which Alexander the Great, in a drunken fit, ſet fire, at the inſtigation of Thais the courtezan...