lauwine

English

Alternative forms

• lawine

Etymology

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

Noun

lauwine (plural lauwines)

1. (poetic, dated) avalanche
   • 1818, George Gordon Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage:

     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; […]

   • 1845, trans. Thomas B. Shaw, “Púshkin, the Russian Poet. No. II. Specimens of his Lyrics.” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 58, no. 357, p. 34:

     I see the young torrent’s first leap towards the ocean,
     And the cliff-cradled lawine essay its first motion.