tarn
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An invasive alligator snapping turtle has been pulled from a Cumbrian tarn.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2024
After the glacier is gone, the bowl at the bottom of the cirque is often occupied by a lake called a tarn.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
I learned that a tarn is a pond, a gill is a stream, and duckboards are slats across boggy ground.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2015
When we came upon a tarn, or alpine lake, we stopped in our tracks, entranced by an oval frame of water reflecting dark forest, blue skies and the snow-covered ridges of mountain peaks.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2011
With the gray suit, she wore a cherry-colored tarn pulled over one eye and vici-kid high buttoned shoes with spool heels.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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