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English
Etymology
Borrowed by Lord Byron from German Lawine, from Late Latin lābīna, from Latin lābēs (“fall”).
Noun
lauwine (plural lauwines)
- (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.