Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
Cockaigne .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An imaginary country of idleness and luxury.
- noun The land of cockneys; cockneydom; -- a term applied to London and its suburbs.
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Examples
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The decline continued so that later eighteenth - and nineteenth-century efforts to reintroduce woad were complicated by a lack of expertise in its culture and its use. 2 The historic significance of woad cultivation in France, especially in the region around Toulouse, is suggested by references to the pays de cocagne (land of plenty), cocagne referring to the forms in which pastel was most commonly shipped.
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The amusements consisted of some races, and a mât de cocagne, or greased pole, placed horizontally over the river; the feat being to walk safely to the end, where the prize was fixed, without falling into the water.
Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser
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Pedermadsen's passage, arcades such as are in Paris, covered with glass roofs and flagged, shops on both sides, and in the evening, when thousands of gas-lamps burnt, here should be the promenade; the esplanades would be the Champs Elysées, with swings and slides, music, and mâts de cocagne.
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He saw before him a land of plenty -- a _vie de cocagne_, a miraculous succession of _plats couverts_, of delicate surprise dishes, of exquisite wines.
Cousin Pons Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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