单词 | rosland |
释义 | roslandn. English regional (now rare). Heathy or marshy terrain, moorland; (also) an area of such land. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [noun] > moor or heath mooreOE moorlandeOE heathOE fella1400 burgh-moorc1600 rosland1704 heath-land1819 wallum1965 1704 Dict. Rusticum (at cited word) Rosland; is heathy Land, or full of Ling;..Waterish, or Moorish Land. 1889 Universal Rev. Nov. 435 On river plain And smothered rosland stirs the snow and dies. 1899 F. Wilkinson in Cent. Mag. July 435/1 You used to love the tinging, cool Plash of the heron in the pool Of the wide roslands by Bel' Ile, Taking his lonely evening meal. 1902 Builder 29 Mar. 311/3 ‘Roseland’ has not the meaning which one would popularly suppose, but should be strictly ‘Rosland’, which means moor or peat land. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1704 |
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