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- noun Plural form of
tarn .
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Examples
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And all the little pools on the mountain, the "tarns," as Becky and Tiza called them, filled up, and the rain made the mountain itself so wet that it was like one big bog all over.
Milly and Olly Humphry Ward 1885
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Ignore a track off to the right on the western side of the 'tarns'.
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Ignore a track off to the right on the western side of the 'tarns'.
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Ever so slowly the murky light began to illuminate the horizon, marking out high altitude tarns and the last remaining vestiges of once mighty glaciers.
Ben Colclough: Mount Kenya: 5,000 m, Mice, Buffalo and Evil Eyes Ben Colclough 2011
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Ever so slowly the murky light began to illuminate the horizon, marking out high altitude tarns and the last remaining vestiges of once mighty glaciers.
Ben Colclough: Mount Kenya: 5,000 m, Mice, Buffalo and Evil Eyes Ben Colclough 2011
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My only regret was that having traced the stunning Chogoria route down past tarns and dramatic vertical gorges from the perfect vantage point on the peak, I was heading down the quicker and less dramatic Naro Moru route.
Ben Colclough: Mount Kenya -- Is This the Most Beautiful Mountain in Africa? Ben Colclough 2011
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My only regret was that having traced the stunning Chogoria route down past tarns and dramatic vertical gorges from the perfect vantage point on the peak, I was heading down the quicker and less dramatic Naro Moru route.
Ben Colclough: Mount Kenya -- Is This the Most Beautiful Mountain in Africa? Ben Colclough 2011
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So I repeat Bill's prayer for all these little tarns of the Rhinogydd – "Long may they remain, unexploited, tranquil and remote, for the spirit of man needs such retreats" – and descend to the estuary shores.
Country diary: Harlech Jim Perrin 2010
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The early sun laid a pink glow over the snow, the mountains, the lochs and the tarns.
A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010
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"Three double tarns, fifteen tarns, eighteen silver tarsks, twenty-seven copper tarsks, and one hundred and five tarsk-bits, " said Lecchio.
Cinnamon Roll 2010
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