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cockayne

n. (alternative spelling of Cockaigne English)

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Cockayne (disambiguation)

Cockayne may refer to:

  • Cockayne or "Cockaigne", a mythical land
  • Cockayne (surname)
  • Cockayne baronets
  • Cockayne syndrome
  • Cockayne, North Yorkshire, a hamlet and ridge in North Yorkshire, England
  • Cockaigne (In London Town), an overture by Edward Elgar
Cockayne (surname)

Cockayne is a surname.

Usage examples of "cockayne".

If Bosworth were still alive, a modern Cockayne would probably accuse him of not reading the 'literature' of his subject, the books written about the books in the so-called Anglo-Saxon tongue.

Sir Anthony Fitzherbert's Book of Husbandry, Markham's Country Contentments, the Tretyse of Hunting, by Sir Thomas Cockayne, Knight, Isaac Walton's Angler, and two or three more such ancient worthies of the pen were his standard authorities.