lover's leap

American  

noun

1. a high area, as on a cliff, from which frustrated or grieving lovers jump or are reputed to have jumped to their death.

2. Backgammon. a player's move from ace point to twelve point in one roll of the dice.

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Etymology

Origin of lover's leap

First recorded in 1800–10

Example Sentences

On this theory the lover's leap, so celebrated by poets, might effect a cure, if the patient escaped with life.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.

From Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman

It is a lover's leap, however, and love is beyond the hopes or arrangements of wisdom.

From Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis by Cooke, George Willis

Like almost all other residences possessed of scenery sufficiently precipitous, this castle boasts its lover's leap.

From The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. by Wells, Nathaniel Armstrong

But with these exceptions I know of none among the numerous plagiarisms of the famous lover's leap of antiquity that offers to despair in search of the picturesque more attractions than the Despe�adera of Montalban.

From The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. by Wells, Nathaniel Armstrong