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Tain vs Tarn - What's the difference?

tain | tarn |

As nouns the difference between tain and tarn

is that tain is thin tin plate while tarn is a small mountain lake, especially in Northern England.

As a proper noun Tarn is

one of the départements of Midi-Pyrénées, France (INSEE code 81.

tain

English

Noun

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  • (obsolete) Thin tin plate
  • (obsolete) Tin foil for mirrors.
  • (Knight)
    (Webster 1913) ----

    tarn

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Northern England) A small mountain lake, especially in Northern England.
  • * 1839, (1997), 1,
  • It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down—but with a shudder even more thrilling than before—upon the remodelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant and eye-like windows.

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