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abri|əˈbriː|
[a. Fr.]
A shelter; spec. in Archæol., a shallow cave which affords protection, a rock-shelter.
1802C. James New Mil. Dict. 1887T. McK. Hughes in Trans. Vict. Inst. XXI. 91 The most interesting caves..are only rock-shelters—abris—such as are seen in the Dordogne district. 1931Antiquity V. 428 They [sc. human teeth] have been found in one of the abri in France. 1949K. P. Oakley Man the Toolmaker vi. 38 (caption) Diagrammatic section of ideal rock-shelter (shallow cave or abri). 1982N.Y. Times 21 Nov. x. 12/4 Living sites were the fronts of caves or under a shelf of overhanging rock—called an abri. |