kistvaen

American  

[kist-vahyn] / ˈkɪstˌvaɪn /

noun

1. cist.

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Etymology

Origin of kistvaen

1705–15; < Welsh cist faen stone coffin, equivalent to cist coffin ( see cist ²) + faen, lenited form of maen stone; see menhir

Example Sentences

N.W., is an ancient tomb containing a kistvaen or sepulchral chamber of stone; it is probably British, though tradition makes it the grave of Hubba, a Danish leader.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various

The great antiquarian treasures garnered up in our sepulchral barrows and olden kistvaen cemeteries, are only to be recovered to antiquarian science by digging, and by digging, too, of the most careful and methodised kind.

From Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 by Stuart, John

Thereupon do thou immediately fold the covering around them, and bury them in a kistvaen, in the strongest place thou hast in thy dominions, and hide them in the earth. 

From The Mabinogion Vol. 3 by Edwards, Owen Morgan, Sir

Thereupon do thou immediately fold the covering round them, and bury them in a kistvaen, in the strongest place thou hast in thy dominions, and hide them in the earth.

From The Junior Classics — Volume 4 by Patten, William

The grave-cists made of stone of the American mounds are exactly like the stone chests, or kistvaen for the dead, found in the British mounds.

From Atlantis : the antediluvian world by Donnelly, Ignatius