tarn
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- noun
- /tɑrn/
- His youth, his chunky, short-legged frame, and terribly white skin; the mop of bright yellow hair on his head and the paucity of it elsewhere: although he keeps up with the best of them and is often the last to tire, he is ashamed each time they strip their clothes to bathe in a freezing stream or a glacial tarn.
- an alpine tarn
- a mountain tarn
- a glacial tarn
Examples
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They have Malham Foss listed, but the cove is mostly dry as water from the tarn seeps through the ground.
Blog text (2) -
I interviewed Brian and Justin overlooking one of the few glacial tarns, and it was incredibly beautiful.
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In 2004, the team was contracted by the National Trust to help them restore the designed landscape around Tarn.
Blog text (2) -
The trail bent to the north past a tarn where the forest thinned.
Fiction book (1991) -
At sundown, with a chill wind sighing through the rocks, they came upon a small black tarn where they passed the night.
Fiction book (1993) -
A small stream trickled down the center to terminate in a stagnant tarn.
Fiction book (1993) -
The broad, U-shaped valley at their feet was clearly glacially shaped, and in the center of the deep bowl directly below them was an immense tarn, an upper mountain lake.
Fiction book (2002) -
The trail bent to the north past a tarn where the forest thinned.
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Much to the author's surprise and delight, this alpine tarn in the Cascade Valley proved to be comfortably warm.
Synonyms
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A large area of fresh water surrounded by land
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Etymology
Tarn comes from an old Scandinavian word tjörn, which means 'small pool' or 'pond'. So a tarn is a small mountain lake, often left behind when a glacier moves away.