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Turlough

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Noun
  1. 1
    A temporary lake in an area of limestone, filled by rising groundwater during the rainy winter season. Ireland

    "Naisi said that it was a turlough, or a disappearing lake, and that before the year's end, it would be full of water again."

Etymology

From Irish tur (“dry”) + loch (“lake”).

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