dolmen

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At the other end of the dolmen was an avenue of stones, some supporting the skeletons of horses’ heads.

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  1. noun See portal tomb.

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  • In the middle of this picture stood the Mardian dolmen, unencumbered now, glinting with frost as if, incongruously, it had been tinselled for the occasion. —  Death of a Fool - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 19: 1956
  • Everybody else agrees about where you were at the moment of the climax: behind the dolmen, they tell us, standing stock still. —  Death of a Fool - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 19: 1956
  • He walked over to the dolmen, glanced behind it and then moved on through the central arch at the back. —  Death of a Fool - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 19: 1956
  • The Fool was in his place behind the dolmen, the hermaphrodite and the horse stood like crazy acolytes to left and right of the stone. —  Death of a Fool - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 19: 1956
  • And in the middle of the courtyard was the dolmen, very black, one heavy stone supported by two others. —  Death of a Fool - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 19: 1956
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  1. French, from Breton *taolvean : *taol, alteration (influenced by taol, table) of tol, key + men, stone; see menhir.

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  1. Also sometimes tolmen; = F. Spanish dolmen, from Breton dolmen, from dol, a table, + men = Welsh maen, a stone. Cf. Welsh tolfaen, an omen-stone (faen in comp. for maen, a stone).
 

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