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noun a turn made in skiing; the outside ski is placed ahead and turned gradually inwards
originFrom Norwegian Telemark, a county in Norway, from Old Norse Þelamǫrk, from the genitive plural case of þelir (“name of an old Germanic tribe”) + mǫrk (“borderland, march, mark, woodland”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0