launde
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, […], [London: […] Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], published 1542, →OCLC, folio cclxxv, recto:
- And in a launde, vpon an hyl of floures
was sette this noble goddesse Nature- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
- English: laund
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