Talk:lagoon
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This implies the word might have some extended sense in dialect:
2021 October 21, Harold F. Farwell, J. Karl Nicholas, Smoky Mountain Voices: A Lexicon of Southern Appalachian Speech Based on the Research of Horace Kephart, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN:
- lagoon: [n.] “Where the ground is low-lying, in swamp or marsh, the country on both sides is completely submerged, forming what are called 'lagoons' in the Southern states and in our back woods 'drowned lands.'" (Fraser 291) (D 1). [See also logon.]