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Cleopatra's needle n. Either of two obelisks which were moved in ancient times from Heliopolis to Alexandria, one of which is now on the Thames Embankment in London, and the other in Central Park, in the City of New York. Note: Some writers consider that only the obelisk now in Central Park is properly called Cleopatra's needle.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cleopatra's needle" Quotes from Famous Books

... needed, it has been preserved for us in the imperishable stones of Egypt.[34] The famous obelisk, known as Cleopatra's Needle, now in Central Park, New York, the gift to our nation from Ismail, Khedive of Egypt in 1878, is a mute but eloquent witness of the antiquity of the simple symbols of the Mason. Originally it stood as one of the forest ...

— The Builders - A Story and Study of Masonry • Joseph Fort Newton