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Definition of Launds
1. laund [n] - See also: laund
Lexicographical Neighbors of Launds
Literary usage of Launds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, Alfred William Pollard, William Caxton (1900)
"... and then the Knight of the Red launds came to fight with him. Now leave we
the knight and the dwarf, and speak we of ..."
2. The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Thomas Malory, Alfred William Pollard (1917)
"... and when the Red Knight of the Red launds had overcome them, he put them to
this shameful death without mercy and pity. And in the same wise he will ..."
3. The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland (1879)
"... gentlemen, in mortgage of xx1 x" currant money in England ; and wee finde that
the sayd Townes & launds are held from his Matic in ffree ..."
4. La Mort D'Arthure: The History of King Arthur and of the Knights of the by Thomas Malory (1866)
"Sir," said the red knight of the red launds, " all this will I doe as yee command,
and siker assurance and ..."
5. Record Series by Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Association (1902)
"On I Sept., 1295, the King, then at Westminster, granted to his servant, John
Hayward, the bailiwick of the forest of Galtres with the launds (tandis) of ..."
6. Original Letters Illustrative of English History: Including Numerous Royal by Henry Ellis (1846)
"And for the reste of the mony for the sayd launds, wyche ys YJM }i., ... that yf
I shale have the sayde launds that I maye prepare the mony to be in a ..."
7. Forty Years in a Moorland Parish: Reminiscences and Researches in Danby in by John Christopher Atkinson (1891)
"... the original Brus stronghold at Castleton—and in four launds or lawns in the
Forest of Danby besides, the fact of the inclosure and partition of these ..."
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