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Twin towers   /twɪn tˈaʊərz/   Listen
Twin towers

noun
1.
Twin skyscrapers 110 stories high in New York City; built 1368 feet tall in 1970 to 1973; destroyed by a terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.  Synonyms: World Trade Center, WTC.






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"Twin towers" Quotes from Famous Books



... Chartres." The Norman seemed to show distinction in another respect which the French were less quick to imitate. What they began, they completed. Not one of the great French churches has two stone spires complete, of the same age, while each of the little towns of Coutances, Bayeux, and Caen contains its twin towers and fleches of stone, as solid and perfect now as they were seven hundred years ago. Still another Norman character is worth noting, because this is one part of the influence felt at Chartres. If you look carefully at the two western towers of the Bayeux Cathedral, perhaps ...
— Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres • Henry Adams



Words linked to "Twin towers" :   skyscraper, terrorist act, terrorism, New York, Greater New York, World Trade Center, New York City, act of terrorism



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