Pictland
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Pictland
- (Scottish history) The northeastern part of Scotland, formerly inhabited by the Picts. [from 14th c.]
- 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.
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