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A small lake.

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Usage examples (9)
  • I've been hillwalking in the North-West Highlands of Scotland, a breathtakingly beautiful landscape of mountain, lochan-jewelled moorland and coastline and on a fine day...
  • Who of that fierce company brought the trooper to his end we never knew, but when M'Iver and I got down to the level he was dead as knives could make him, and his horse, more...
  • A lochan nestles in the centre of the wood surrounded by majestic conifers and rugged mountains.
  • Undemanding forest trail walks around an amazingly serene lochan, which provides spectacular reflections of the surrounding woodland.
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