cromlech
Americannoun
noun
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a circle of prehistoric standing stones
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(no longer in technical usage) a megalithic chamber tomb or dolmen
Etymology
Origin of cromlech
1595–1605; < Welsh, equivalent to crom bent, curved, crooked (feminine of crwm ) + lech, combining form of llech flat stone
Vocabulary lists containing cromlech
Example Sentences
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The cromlech built in Langemark, Belgium is marking the 100th anniversary of the war's outbreak.
From BBC • Aug. 16, 2014
The charcoal sample that was thus dated came from an excavated pit at Stonehenge, the great "megalithic cromlech" on England's Salisbury Plain that has mystified scientists since Roman times.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cromlech is the Welsh equivalent for the Breton dolmen, but Breton archaeologists use cromlech to describe a circle formed by menhirs.
From The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by Wentz, W. Y. Evans
Here he fought with Leinster— Last of all his frays— On the Hill of Cucorb's Fate High his cromlech raise.
From A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
Away up among them is another huge quoit or cromlech, probably marking the burial-place of some chieftain long before Arthur's date.
From Cornwall by Mitton, G. E. (Geraldine Edith)
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