lover's leap

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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of lover's leap¹

First recorded in 1800–10

Example Sentences

Recently, I led a multipitch free climb for the first time when I climbed Corrugation Corner, a legendary 500-feet ascent up a sheer rock face at Lover’s Leap in South Lake Tahoe, California.

From Slate

His northern California test sites have included the granite of Tahoe’s Lover’s Leap, the single-pitch trad routes of Phantom Spires, sport climbing at Luther Spires, and the crevice and chimney systems of nearby Sugarloaf.

From Forbes

I'll go!—and from the high Leucadian steep Take my last farewell in the lover's leap, I charge thee, Phaon, by this deed of woe To meet me in the Elysian shades below, No rival beauty shall pretend a share, Sappho alone shall walk with Phaon there.

From Project Gutenberg

She became violently enamoured of a young man of Mitylene, who was so ungallant as not to reciprocate her attachment; and being reduced to a state of hopeless despair, she precipitated herself into the sea from the steep cliff of Leucate, ever since called the "Lover's Leap."

From Project Gutenberg

Here commencing p. 257a walk of three miles in length, we passed through agreeable plantations of oak, ash, and elm, to the edge of a perpendicular cliff, called the Lover’s Leap, overlooking an abyss-like hollow, whose fearful depth is softened by a tract of forest extending over the surrounding rocks. 

From Project Gutenberg