strond

plural stronds

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of strand.

   A woman that wandring in our coaſtes hath bought A plot for price: where ſhe a citie ſet: To whom we gaue the ſtrond for to manure.

   1557 July 1, Virgil, “The Second Boke of Virgiles Aenæis”, in Henry [Howard, Earl] of Surrey, transl., edited by William Bolland, Certain Bokes of Virgiles Aenaeis, Turned into English Meter ([Roxburghe Club Publications; I]), London: […] A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1814, →OCLC

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   Yea this mans brow, like to a title leafe, Foretells the nature of a tragicke volume, So lookes the ſtrond, whereon the imperious floud, Hath left a witneſt vſurpation.

   c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]

   Baſſ[anio]. […] and her ſunny locks Hang on her temples like a golden fleece, Which makes her ſeat of Belmont Cholchos ſtrond, And many Iaſons come in queſt of her.

   c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 164