The Collaborative International Dictionary
Laund \Laund\ (l[add]nd), n. [See Lawn of grass.] A plain sprinkled with trees or underbrush; a glade. [Obs.]
In a laund upon an hill of flowers.
--Chaucer.
Through this laund anon the deer will come.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. (context archaic English) A grassy plain or pasture, especially surrounded by woodland; a glade.
Usage examples of "laund".
THE MILL I How the Young Martimor would Become a Knight and Assay Great Adventure When Sir Lancelot was come out of the Red Launds where he did many deeds of arms, he rested him long with play and game in a land that is, called Beausejour.
The statute of sorcery, tricesimo tertio Of Harry the Eighth: ay, and perhaps thy neck Within a noose, for laundring gold and barbing it.
So, on the morn they rode into the forest of adventures to a laund, and thereby they found a cross, and as they stood and hoved there came by them the fairest knight and the seemliest man that ever they saw, making the greatest dole that ever man made.
Truly, said Merlin, ye ought sore to repent it, for that lady was your own daughter begotten on the lady of the Rule, and that knight that was dead was her love, and should have wedded her, and he was a right good knight of a young man, and would have proved a good man, and to this court was he coming, and his name was Sir Miles of the Launds, and a knight came behind him and slew him with a spear, and his name is Loraine le Savage, a false knight and a coward.
Fair sir, said the damosel, abate not your cheer for all this sight, for ye must courage yourself, or else ye be all shent, for all these knights came hither to this siege to rescue my sister Dame Lionesse, and when the Red Knight of the Red Launds had overcome them, he put them to this shameful death without mercy and pity.
And therefore wit thou well, thou Red Knight of the Red Launds, I love her, and will rescue her, or else to die.
Make thee ready, said the Red Knight of the Red Launds, and talk no longer with me.
Sir, said the Red Knight of the Red Launds, hold your hand and ye shall know the causes why I put them to so shameful a death.
Sir, said the Red Knight of the Red Launds, all this will I do as ye command, and siker assurance and borrows ye shall have.
And so within a while the Red Knight of the Red Launds yede unto the castle, and put him in her grace.
And also, brother, he hath done much for me, and delivered me from the Red Knight of the Red Launds, and therefore, brother, I owe him my service afore all knights living.
Sir, he said, my name is the Red Knight of the Red Launds, but my name is Sir Ironside.
And as to thee, Ironside, that art called the Red Knight of the Red Launds, thou art called a perilous knight.
But to say the worship that the Red Knight of the Red Launds, and Sir Persant and his brother said of Beaumains, it was marvel to hear.
Also, that ye send unto Sir Ironside, that is the Red Knight of the Red Launds, and charge him that he be ready with you with his whole sum of knights, and then shall ye be able to match with King Arthur and his knights.