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tarnlike en · ADJ

Etymology

From tarn + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a tarn.
   • Pnin suggested leaving the luggage and walking one block—if Victor was not afraid of the rain (it was pouring hard, and the asphalt glistened in the darkness, tarnlike, under large, noisy trees). 1957 March 7, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 4.8, in Pnin, Heinemann, page 104:

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