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Middle English
Etymology
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Noun
launde (plural laundes)
- A grassy plain or pasture, especially surrounded by woodland; a glade.
1343?–1400 (date written), Geffray Chaucer [i.e., Geoffrey Chaucer], “The Assemble of Foules”, in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, , Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes , published
1542,
→OCLC,
folio cclxxv, recto:
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