menhir

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From Breton maen-hir, from maen (“stone”) + hir (“tall”) ( = Welsh maen hir, Cornish mênhere).

menhir (plural menhirs)

A single tall standing stone as a monument, especially of prehistoric times.
- 1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.:
  no time has passed since we lived in caves, grappled with fish at the reedy shore, buried our dead with a song, with red-ochre and pulled up our dolmens, temples and menhirs and standing stones to the glory of some indeterminate god or gods [...].
- 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:
  On the coast tree ferns and pandanus palms. Inland termite menhirs seventeen feet high.