lagune

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Borrowed from French lagune, from Venetan laguna, from Latin lacūna.

I felt as if again amid the Lagunes of Venice. — Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber : $b or, The influence of Romanism on trade, justice, and knowledge, J. A. (James Aitken) Wylie
Joseph Denman, who was senior officer of the British squadron on the coast, unexpectedly landed two hundred men, and burnt or destroyed all the Spanish factories amid the lagunes and islets. — Captain Canot; Or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver, Theodore Canot
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, Ann Ward Radcliffe

lagoon, laguna

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