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Cockaigne

noun
1.
(Middle Ages) an imaginary land of luxury and idleness.





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... trader thither, never o'er the purple main Sounds the oath of British commerce, or the accents of Cockaigne. ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various
... appeared in September, 1818, preceded the death of Keats by two years and five months].... The fact is, the Quarterly, finding before it a work at once silly and presumptuous, full of the servile slang that Cockaigne dictates to its servitors, and the vulgar indecorums which that Grub Street Empire rejoiceth to applaud, told the truth of the volume, and recommended a change of manners[14] and of masters to the scribbler. Keats wrote on; but he wrote indecently, probably in the ...
— Adonais • Shelley


Words linked to "Cockaigne" :   fictitious place, Middle Ages, Dark Ages, mythical place, imaginary place


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