† Greeklandn.
Obsolete.
The land of the Greeks; Greece.
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Grewc1275
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c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 558 Dionisius gewende on ðam timan from Greclande.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 16423 An staff. þatt iss ȝehatenn. Μy Affterr gricc landess spæche.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 166 He iwende sorhful ouer sea-streames. into Griclonde [c1300 Otho Greclonde].
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Acts xx. A He came in to Grekelonde, and there abode thre monethes.
?1555 M. Coverdale tr. O. Werdmueller Treat. Death iii. x. 238 The kyng of Barbarye..whom he [sc.Themistocles] before had dryuen out of grekelande.
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