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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The lagune is also exposed to winds direct for the ocean. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He was killed a few days afterwards, "in the western lagune" there, "by one of his Company as they were cutting Logwood together." ❋ 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. ❋ 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. ❋ 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 ❋ Frank Hamilton Cushing (1878)
The roof seemed a sieve, the floor became a lagune. ❋ Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (1877)
He was well trained in the religious discipline of the Indians; and now that he saw hope before him, his next thought was one of gratitude toward that mother of all who, though dwelling at the bottom of the lagune of ❋ Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (1877)
When the soul is released from the thralls of this body and its surrounding nature, it goes to Shipapu, at the bottom of the lagune, where there is eternal dancing and feasting, and where everything goes on as here upon earth, but with less pain, care, anguish, and danger. ❋ Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (1877)
And now again we traversed the great bridge and the long, still, glassy space of calm lagune, and left the lessening domes of Venice far behind. ❋ Unknown (1873)
Giudecca lies in front, covering mud and marsh and lagune-flames of later afternoon, and you have sight of the high mainland hills which seem to fling forth one over other to a golden sea-cape. ❋ George Meredith (1868)
It transforms the magnificence of color of the lagune-city into a dazzling radiance, the smiles to Olympic laughter, the love-whispers to exultant songs, the noisy, busy life of the mighty commercial city into a mad whirlpool, which draws everything into its circle, and releases nothing it has once seized. ❋ Georg Ebers (1867)
It would seem that in classical times Ravenna stood, like modern Venice, in the centre of a huge lagune, the fresh waters of the Ronco and the Po mixing with the salt waves of the ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)
Again, between the city and the mainland ran a long low causeway all across the lagune like that on which the trains now glide into Venice. ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)
djuhguwdhrfwtybgsfv lagun ❋ Drunk Cat (2018)
"hey [whats up]?" "[LAGUN LEP]!" "[huh]..." ❋ Adfghkjsdbljb (2008)
[Soy] Laguner ❋ Mochinumber1 (2021)
[Unusual] [intervention] by animal advocates took place following sighting of a mysterious ‘lagun’ in [Krakow]. ❋ Avid Lagun Spotter (2022)
