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单词 allée couverte
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allée couverten.

Brit. /aˌleɪ kʊˈvɛːt/, U.S. /ɑˌleɪ kuˈvɛrt/
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French allée couverte.
Etymology: < French allée couverte (1841 or earlier in this specific sense) < allée allée n. + couverte , feminine of couvert covered (see covert adj.).
Archaeology.
A type of tunnel-shaped Neolithic tomb, typically comprising a long rectangular chamber, found esp. in central and northern France; = gallery grave n. at gallery n. Compounds 2.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > types of tomb > [noun] > types of ancient or prehistoric
table tomb1738
well tomb1843
chamber tomb1850
passage grave1865
allée couverte1870
passage tomb1870
mastaba1882
tholos1885
beehive tomb1887
circle-tomb1889
shaft tomb1895
shaft-grave1910
pit-cave1921
gallery grave1937
dyss1938
1870 Jrnl. Ethnol. Soc. 2 64 This cromlech appears to be an elongated allée couverte..measuring 35 feet in length.
1896 J. W. C. Hughes Bradshaw's Hand-bk. Brittany 64/2 There is also an ‘Allee Couverte’ here, which has never been opened.
1930 V. G. Childe Bronze Age iv. 151 The discovery of a few Bronze Age trinkets among Neolithic or Copper Age grave goods in..the allées couvertes of the Seine-Oise-Marne basins.
1981 G. Daniel Short Hist. Archaeol. i. 33 In France a megalithic tomb was..excavated in 1685... It was..a good example of what we would now call an allée couverte.
2008 T. Darvill Conc. Oxf. Dict. Archaeol. (Electronic text) at word [The]allée couverte... comprises long rectangular chambers with little or no evidence of differentiation within them... Where excavated, the chambers are found to contain the remains of several hundred individuals.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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