Dolmen (noun)
dol-men
A megalithic tomb with a large flat stone laid on upright ones, found chiefly in Britain and France.
Mid 19th century from French, perhaps via Breton from Cornish tolmen ‘hole of a stone’.
Example sentences
“Pembrokeshire has the best example of an intact dolmen in the whole of the UK.”
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