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  • noun Plural form of menhir.

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Examples

  • The menhirs are our principal allies upon the Plain.

    The White Rose Cook, Glen 1985

  • Asterix and Obelix hunt wild boar together and Obelix makes "menhirs", those prehistoric stone monuments that are scattered all over Brittany.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Eliot Coleman, AlterNet 2010

  • Asterix and Obelix hunt wild boar together and Obelix makes "menhirs", those prehistoric stone monuments that are scattered all over Brittany.

    Grist - the Latest from Grist 2010

  • Asterix and Obelix hunt wild boar together and Obelix makes "menhirs", those prehistoric stone monuments that are scattered all over Brittany.

    Grist - the Latest from Grist 2010

  • In view of St Buryan's church but out of sight of the Pipers menhirs, the 19 stones of the Merry Maidens appeared mired in their circle surrounded by cocksfoot and dandelions.

    Country diary: Cornwall Virginia Spiers 2010

  • The menhirs, though, are the fakest things I've seen outside a Doctor Who marathon.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007

  • Above the tree line, the startling outline of crests and peaks, the ancient silhouettes of menhirs, dolmens and natural sculptures.

    Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007

  • You will have lodgings with Master Guillaume a local name for the Devil, and the menhirs of the forest of Lanvaux were not standing that she ran before you with her with her twisted legs, so that one says; because, except your respect, I did not look at them.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Christopher 2007

  • You will have lodgings with Master Guillaume a local name for the Devil, and the menhirs of the forest of Lanvaux were not standing that she ran before you with her with her twisted legs, so that one says; because, except your respect, I did not look at them.

    Sorcery in Brittany Christopher 2007

  • Between the menhirs flowed a dark tide of shadows, unstable and chaotic.

    Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

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