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- noun A kind of traditional Korean
shamanistic totem pole .
Etymologies
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From Korean 장승 (jangseung).
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Called jangseung (village guardians), they were once used to mark village boundaries and scare away demons.
Seoul By Peggy Edersheim Kalb 2010
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