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lauwines

lauwines is the plural of lauwine.

Meaning of lauwine

Noun

lauwine (plural lauwines)

  1. (dated, poetic) An avalanche.
    • 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;[…]1812–1818, Lord Byron, “(please specify |canto=I to IV)”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by...

Questions about lauwines

What is lauwines the plural of?
Lauwines is the plural of lauwine.

Words near lauwines in the dictionary

  1. Lauture
  2. Lautures
  3. Lauver
  4. Lauvers
  5. lauwine
  6. lauwines
  7. Laux
  8. lauxaniid
  9. lauxaniids
  10. lauyah
  11. Lauzier

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