Pictland

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English

Etymology

From Pict +‎ -land.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Pictland

  1. (Scottish history) The northeastern part of Scotland, formerly inhabited by the Picts.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      He, through the wealth wherein he did abound, / This daughter thought in wedlocke to have bound / Unto the Prince of Picteland […].
    • 11 Oct 2013, Tom Shippey, The Guardian:
      Either the long-dead wheelwright didn't think of that – or else early Pictland had gravelled roads.