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COCKAIGNE

• COCKAIGNE (noun)
The noun COCKAIGNE has 1 sense:

1. (Middle Ages) an imaginary land of luxury and idleness

Familiarity information: COCKAIGNE used as a noun is very rare.

• COCKAIGNE (noun)

Sense 1

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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)

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