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‖ peulvan, -ven Archæol.|pølvɑ̃|
[Fr. peulven (1837 in Ernault, 1876 in Compl. Dict. Acad.), peulven or peulvan (1879 in Dict. Acad.), a. Breton peûlvan (Le Pelletier 1752), dial. Quiberon palwen (Ernault), f. peûl stake, pillar (= Welsh pawl, L. pālus) + van, mutate of man appearance, figure, statue (Le Pelletier, Legonidec, etc.), or ? ven, mutate of men stone, or ? merely formative suffix (Loth, Ernault).]
An upright long stone, an undressed stone pillar of prehistoric age; properly applied to those existing in Brittany.
1851Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. I. 469 When will Druidical archæologists be convinced that menzhir and peulven, cromlech and kistvaen tell us nothing? 1859Jephson Brittany xi. 182 It would puzzle many an engineer of the present day to..balance a peulvan or rocking-stone. 1889Jrnl. Anthrop. Inst. XIX. 73 An ‘inclined dolmen’, and four peulvens, or small upright stones, 1 m. 45 to 3 m. high. |