Avernn.
/əˈvəːn/ poetic.
originally. A lake in Campania, the poisonous effluvium from which was said to kill birds flying over it. transferred. The infernal regions.
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a1592 R. Greene Comicall Hist. Alphonsus (1599) i. sig. B2 Pluto king of darke Auerne.
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