dolmen
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[edit] Etymology
Perhaps incorrectly fabricated[clarification needed] from Breton taol maen (“‘stone table’”): taol (“‘table’”) + maen (“‘stone’”). See also menhir.
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dolmen (plural dolmens)
- a prehistoric megalithic tomb consisting of a capstone supported by two or more upright stones, most having originally been covered with earth or smaller stones to form a barrow.
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tomb consisting of a capstone supported by two or more upright stones
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- Anagrams of delmno
- old men