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Proper noun
Island of the Blest (plural Islands of the Blest)
- (mythology) A paradisial island or archipelago, located to the far West, the abode of good people after death.
1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 45:The Feeries of romance may be divided into three kinds: Avalon, placed in the ocean, like the Island of the Blest; those that, like the palace of Pari Banou, are within the earth; and, lastly, those that, like Oberon's domains, are situate 'in wilderness among the holtis hairy.'