kistvaen

[ kist-vahyn ]

/ ˈkɪstˌvaɪn /

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Origin of kistvaen

1705–15; <Welsh cist faen stone coffin, equivalent to cist coffin (see cist²) + faen, lenited form of maen stone; see menhir

Words nearby kistvaen

kisspeptin, kissy, kissy-face, kist, Kistna, kistvaen, Kisumu, kiswah, Kiswahili, kit, Kitagawa Utamaro

How to use kistvaen in a sentence

Traces of old habitation abound; there are many barrows and one perfect kistvaen.
The Cornwall Coast|Arthur L. Salmon
And in their sleep, Lludd folded the covering around them, and in the securest place he had in Snowdon, he hid them in a kistvaen.
The Mabinogion|Lady Charlotte Guest
The Leacht seems to have been a larger-sized kistvaen, a cromlech or dolmen, but a single upright stone was also called a leacht.
A Book of the West. Volume I Devon|S. Baring-Gould
The Cnoc was a rounded, sugar-loaf mound of earth, and the Duma was a similar mound raised over a kistvaen.
A Book of the West. Volume I Devon|S. Baring-Gould

One ruined cairn with a kistvaen in it is still called "The Crock of Gold," but probably bronze was the metal chiefly found.
A Book of the West. Volume I Devon|S. Baring-Gould