fogou
(ˈfəʊguː)
[ad. Cornish fogo, fougo a cave, underground chamber. Cf. vogal, vug.]
A Cornish souterrain or earth-house.
| 1889 Chambers's Encycl. III. 490 Cornwall abounds in..menhirs, cromlechs, artificial caves or fogous, cairns and barrows. 1891 J. H. Pearce Esther Pentreath iv. ix. 299 He do know the owld adits and fogous..p'raps he's shiltrin' in wan o' they somewhere. 1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Aug. 565/1 The fogous, or covered tunnels, are unknown in the rest of South Britain or on the Continent. 1962 Listener 5 Apr. 591/1 If..you visit the enclosure which contains the fogou, the underground structure, that is, which is called Carn Euny. 1963 Field Archæol. (Ordnance Survey) (ed. 4) 65 Earth-houses... The other part of Britain where similar underground structures are found is Cornwall. Here they are known as fogous... Several Cornish forts..have a fogou which acts as a kind of narrow postern giving access to the ditch from inside the defences. 1970 N. Chadwick Celts v. 126 The souterrain, sometimes referred to in Cornwall as a fogou. |