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单词 lavant
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lavantn.

/ˈlavənt/
Etymology: ? substantive use of lavant adj.
(See quot. 1774.)
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the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > torrent
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floodgatea1425
waterfall1578
torrent1609
torrent-stream1728
rattle1770
lavant1774
fiumara1820
torrent-flood1825
skookum chuck1888
1774 G. White Let. 14 Feb. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 174 The land-springs, which we call lavants, break out much on the downs of Sussex, Hampshire, and Wiltshire.
1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. (at cited word) How it did rain! It ran down the street in a lavant.
1900 Academy 28 Apr. 365/1 The waterings and ‘lavants’ from the hills leave her [Rye] arid.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

lavantadj.

Etymology: < French lavant, present participle of laver to wash.
Obsolete.
That bathes; given to bathing.
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1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. A5 Birds..are..pulveratricious lavant, as the Pigeon, ring-dove [etc.].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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