The phrase "cistern of" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a specific type of container or reservoir that is used for storing water. Example: The old farmhouse had a cistern of rainwater that was used for irrigation during the dry season.
She showed them a ceramic cistern of water, a small calabash dipping cup.
Marjorie Eliot goes again to the piano, drawn to it as though it were a shiny black cistern of water.
He is converting the basement cistern of the house where he is caretaker for use as a torture chamber.
Fancy that - hardly had I given a final flush to the bloody cistern of menstruation when the alarm went off somewhere and the cells began to divide.
In its purity of lines, especially in catching shafts of light creating glowing pools on the surface of mirror-smooth water, "Albano (Rome), Cistern of the Military Camp Castra Albana" could have been taken by Margaret Bourke-White.
The prey is attracted to the large showy leaves by nectar, and it slips from a treacherous lip into the pitcherlike hollow leaf, which in reality is a cistern of digestive liquid from which there is no escape.
This allowed the group to analyze the complex CSF circulatory system of cisternal and subarachnoid compartments, including the routes of CSF flow through the cisterns of the velum interpositum and anterior medullary velum.
Malignant fluid poured into the cisterns of her abdomen.
Some of the enormous open-water cisterns of the Byzantine era now serve market gardens.
Also distinctive were the underground cisterns, of which more than 30 are known in Constantinople today.
"Higher Atlas," the visual arts component, is happening at five different venues, including the gardens and cisterns of a 12th-century mosque, the lofty halls of a downtown bank and a small village out of town.
