cockaigne
/ko-keyn/US // kɒˈkeɪn //UK // (kɒˈkeɪn) //
蟑螂
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a fabled land of luxury and idleness.
Synonyms & Antonyms
as innever-never land
Examples
Never comes the trader thither, never o'er the purple main Sounds the oath of British commerce, or the accents of Cockaigne.
It is a superb land, a country of Cockaigne, as they say, that I dream of visiting with an old friend.
An old French poem on the Land of Cockaigne described it as an ideal land of luxury and ease.
There is a wonderful country, a country of Cockaigne, they say, which I dreamed of visiting with an old friend.
It is, says Dixon, the common English broadsheet "turned into the dialect of Cockaigne."
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