1. escurial - Noun
2. Escurial - Proper noun
A palace and mausoleum of the kinds of Spain, being a vast and wonderful structure about twenty-five miles northwest of Madrid.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe successors of Charles the Fifth may disdain their brethren of England; but the romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of the house of Austria. Edward Gibbon
My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the Escurial. George Herbert