Meanings
plural launds · alternative laune
- archaicA grassy plain or pasture, especially surrounded by woodland; a glade.
Through this laund anon the deer will come.
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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]2 more examples
About them lay long launds of green grass dappled with celandine and anemones,
1954, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two TowersOdon 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).
1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*lendʰ-“land, heath”
- Proto-Celtic*landā
- Proto-Germanic*landą“land”
- Old Frenchlaunde“wooded area”
- Middle Englishlaunde
- Englishlaund
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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