lubberland
English
Etymology
lubber + land
Noun
lubberland (plural lubberlands)
- Synonym of Cockaigne, a land of plenty
- 1831, Thomas Carlyle, chapter VII, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], OCLC 614372740, book second, page 113:
- “Truth!” I cried, “though the Heavens crush me for following her: no Falsehood! though a whole celestial Lubberland were the price of Apostasy.”
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Contrat Social”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, OCLC 1026761782, book II (The Paper Age), page 54:
- In such prophesied Lubberland, of Happiness, Benevolence, and Vice cured of its deformity, trust not, my friends! Man is not what one calls a happy animal; his appetite for sweet victual is so enormous.
- 1864 March, “On the Relation of Art to Nature”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 13, number 77:
- All action and story, all individuality of persons, objects, and events, is merged in a pervading atmosphere of tranquil, sunny repose,—as of a holiday-afternoon. It may seem to us an idle lubberland, a paradise of do-nothings;—Mr. Ruskin sees in it only a "dim, stupid, serene, leguminous enjoyment."
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Further reading
- lubberland in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911