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English
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Etymology
From Middle English launde, from Old French launde (“wooded area”) (French lande), of Germanic or Gaulish origin, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”) or Proto-Celtic *landā, both from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Doublet of land.
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Noun
laund (plural launds)
- (archaic) A grassy plain or pasture, especially surrounded by woodland; a glade.
c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Through this laund anon the deer will come.
1954, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers:About them lay long launds of green grass dappled with celandine and anemones,
1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:Odon was known to be resting, after completing his motion picture, at the villa of an old American friend, Joseph S. Lavender (the name hails from the laundry, not from the laund).
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Middle English
Noun
laund
- Alternative form of lond
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English lond.
Noun
laund (plural launds)
- land