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单词 Pictland
释义 Pictland|ˈpɪktlænd|
[f. Pict + land.]
The land of the Picts: a name for Scotland north of the Forth.
[1701J. Brand (title) A Brief Description of Orkney, Zetland, Pightland-Frith, and Caithness.]1846McCulloch Acc. Brit. Empire (1854) I. 225 The inhabitants of this district, the Caledonians of Tacitus, were afterwards known by the name of Picts; and from them the country was for some centuries called Pictland.Ibid. 425 In the third century, the terms Picts and Pictland began to be substituted for Caledonians and Caledonia.1860Shairp Sk. (1887) 36 To convert Pictland and plant the Church there.
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