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nounshadowland (plural shadowlands)
plural shadowlands
- A shadowy or borderline area, where normal rules and boundaries do not apply.
You can find a fair number of stage bootlegs if you know your way around the shadowlands of file sharing, but not nearly enough of it is available via normal commercial channels.
2009 January 4, Ben Ratliff, “One Young Band Among Some Older Sounds”, in New York TimesSynonyms: twilight zone
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA shadowy or borderline area, where normal rules and boundaries do not apply.
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