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lagoon
1612, from Fr.
lagune,
from It.
laguna
"pond, lake," from L.
lacuna
"pond, hole," from
lacus
"pond" (see
lake
). Originally in ref. to the region of Venice; applied 1769 to the lake-like stretch of water enclosed in a South Seas atoll.
