Crossword-Solution: MENHIRS
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| Stonehenge stones | 1 answer |
| Upright prehistoric stones. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with MENHIRS (5)
During the first centuries of the Christian era, strange rites were still performed in honor of dolmens and menhirs.
That of Salkeld in Cumberland includes sixty-seven menhirs; that near Loch Stemster in Caithness, thirty-three, whilst in Westmoreland, _Long Meg and her daughters_ are still the objects of superstitious reverence.
Menhirs properly so called, also known as _lechs_ in Brittany, are in reality isolated monoliths or single upright stones, often of considerable size.
Some archæologists in view of the shape of certain menhirs and the superstitions connected with then, think they must be phallic monuments.
Menhirs in France are quoted in this connection, cut into the form of the phallus; and the same form occurs in some menhirs near Saphos, in the island of Cyprus,12 and in others found amongst the ruins of Uxmal, in Yucatan.
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Appears in: Chronicle, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1953–2007).