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sar⋅sen

  [sahr-suhn]
–noun
any of numerous large sandstone blocks or fragments found in south-central England, probably remnants of eroded Tertiary beds.
Also called Druid stone, graywether.

Origin:
1635–45; syncopated var. of Saracen, short for Saracen boulder Druid stone
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sarsen 
"large sandstone boulder," 1644, prop. sarsen stone, i.e. Saracen stone, from Saracen (q.v.) in the old sense of "pagan, heathen."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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