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COCKAIGNE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Middle Ages) an imaginary land of luxury and idleness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Cockaigne" is a kind of...):
fictitious place; imaginary place; mythical place (a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings)
Domain category:
Dark Ages; Middle Ages (the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance)