(the) Cerne Giant

(the) Cerne Giant
the Cerne Giant [the Cerne Giant]
a very large figure of a naked man holding a heavy stick as a weapon, cut in ancient times in the side of a hill near Cerne Abbas in Dorset, England. The ground is chalk, so the figure appears white against the green grass.

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