lauwine

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Borrowed by Lord Byron from German Lawine, from Late Latin lābīna, from Latin lābēs (fall).

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lauwine (plural lauwines)

  1. (poetic, dated) An avalanche.
    • 1812–1818, Lord Byron, “(please specify |canto=I to IV)”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: Printed for John Murray, []; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, [], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):
      Once more upon the woody Apennine, / The infant Alps, which — had I not before / Gazed on their mightier parents, where the pine / Sits on more shaggy summits, and where roar / The thundering lauwine — might be worshipped more; []
    • 1823, George Bancroft, Poems, Hilliard and Metcalf, page 10,
      The towers of my castle of lauwines are made; / On chambers of ice their foundations are laid; / Like loftiest pyramids rising in air, / O! who but confesses my turrets are fair.
    • 1845, “Púshkin, the Russian Poet. No. II. Specimens of his Lyrics.”, in Thomas B. Shaw, transl., Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume 58, number 357, page 34:
      I see the young torrent’s first leap towards the ocean, / And the cliff-cradled lawine essay its first motion.