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cockaigne

/ko-keyn/US // kɒˈkeɪn //UK // (kɒˈkeɪn) //

蟑螂

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a fabled land of luxury and idleness.

Synonyms & Antonyms

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."