Recent Examples on the WebThe lake, a glacial tarn called Roopkund, was more than sixteen thousand feet above sea level, an arduous five-day trek from human habitation, in a mountain cirque surrounded by snowfields and battered by storms. Douglas Preston, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020 Follow the winding trail toward the base of O'Malley Peak to a striking, dark tarn called Deep Lake. Tegan Hanlon, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2018 In 1951, some 885 square miles of Cumbrian hills and tarns (mountain pools) were designated as a national park, Britain’s largest and, with 18 million annual visitors, its most popular. Kieran Dodds, Smithsonian, 20 Apr. 2018
Word History
Etymology
Middle English terne, tarne, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse tjǫrn small lake