单词 | peulvan |
释义 | peulvann. Archaeology. An upright megalithic stone of a type found in Brittany. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [noun] > structure or erection > stone > column, pillar, or obelisk needlea1387 obelisk1561 column1606 guglioc1660 cippus1667 aiguille1686 broach1715 lat1801 nuraghe1828 peulvan1841 shaft1847 1841 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 4 258/1 On the well known peulvan or rough obelisk of Kerveatou in Finisterre, we find the head of a bull represented in such a way as to enable us to comprehend the outline. 1851 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. I. 469 When will Druidical archæologists be convinced that menzhir and peul-ven, cromlech and kistvaen tell us nothing? 1891 Amer. Naturalist 25 873 The megalithic monuments are rude monoliths of the granite of the Breton coast, called menhirs..they are also called peulvans. 1911 W. Y. Evans-Wentz tr. Mahé in Fairy-faith in Celtic Countries iii. viii. 401 In accordance with this strange theory they (the Celts) could believe that rocks, set in motion by spirits which animated them, sometimes went to drink at rivers, as is said of the Peulvan at Noyal-Pontivy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1841 |
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