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)
- (poetic, dated) 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 22697011, (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; […]
- 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.
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