lagune

The word originated in Latin as lacuna, then later appears in Venice as laguna, transforms to lagune in French, then appears, anglicized as lagoon for the first time in 1769 to refer to the lake-like stretch of water enclosed in a South Seas atoll.

The Mother of All Lagoons 2004

The word originated in Latin as lacuna, then later appears in Venice as laguna, transforms to lagune in French, then appears, anglicized as lagoon for the first time in 1769 to refer to the lake-like stretch of water enclosed in a South Seas atoll.

Veniceblog: 2004

The gondolieri were frequently hailed, at this early hour, by the market-people, as they glided by towards Venice, and the lagune soon displayed a gay scene of innumerable little barks, passing from terra-firma with provisions.

The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

The lagune is also exposed to winds direct for the ocean.

Travels in Morocco 2003

Persons report that near this spot is a spacious harbour, or lagune, sufficiently capacious to contain four or five hundred sail of the line; but, unfortunately, the entrance is obstructed by some rocks, which, however, it is added, might easily be blown up.

Travels in Morocco 2003

He was killed a few days afterwards, "in the western lagune" there, "by one of his Company as they were cutting Logwood together."

On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922

Only in the deceptive dream of the mirage would they appear once more, looming in a pearl-coloured shaking veil like a fluid on the edge of some visionary lagune.

The Garden of Allah Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

This lagune is probably formed in the basin or crater of some extinct geyser or volcanic spring, as the two high and wonderfully similar mountains on either side are identical in formation with those in which occur the cave-craters farther south on the same river.

Zuñi Fetiches Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-1881, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 3-45 Frank Hamilton Cushing 1878

Kó-thlu-ël-lon-ne, now a marsh-bordered lagune situated on the eastern shore of the Colorado Chiquito, about fifteen miles north and west from the pueblo of San Juan, Arizona, and nearly opposite the mouth of the

Zuñi Fetiches Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-1881, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 3-45 Frank Hamilton Cushing 1878

The roof seemed a sieve, the floor became a lagune.

The Delight Makers Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier 1877