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see|Tarn
English

Etymology
From ON. term|tjǫrn||a small mountain lake without tributaries|lang=non.

Pronunciation
rhymes|��(r)n

Noun
en-noun

1. Northern English dialect A small mountain lake, especially in Northern England.

#* 1839, w:Edgar Allan Poe|Edgar Allan Poe, w:The Fall of the House of Usher|The Fall of the House of Usher, w:Project Gutenberg|Project Gutenberg (1997), 1,
#*: It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down�but with a shudder even more thrilling than before�upon the remodelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant and eye-like windows.

Translations
trans-top|a small mountain lake
trans-mid
Spanish: t|es|laguna|f (de montaña)
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References
R:Online Etymology Dictionary

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