Kist-vaen(The). A rude stone sepulchre or mausoleum, like a chest with a flat stone for a cover “At length they reached a grassy mound, on the top of which was
placed one of those receptacles for the dead of the ancient British
chiefs of distinction, called Kist-vaen, which are composed of upright
fragments of granite, so placed as to form a stone coffin.” — Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Kist-vaen from Infoplease:
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