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  • n  a tall upright megalith; found primarily in England and northern France

  • The prehistoric Corsicans evidently failed to stop the Shardanes, for many menhir fragments are embedded in the walls of Shardane temples.
  • His rendering of Andre Derain as a jowly menhir of flesh in a dressing gown is surely one of the great portraits of the century.

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