launde

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launde (plural laundes)

1. 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

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• English: laund