Welshland
Proper noun
  1. (dated) The land of foreigners; a foreign land, originally applied to Celtic lands, but later extended to include Roman and Romance speaking areas.
  2. (rare) The land of the Welsh; Wales.
    • 1905, The Gentleman's magazine:
      It is now practically established that the legend emanated from the Kymri, spreading from "Welshland" through Cornwall into the Welsh-speaking colony of Brittany upon the opposite shore.
    • 1996, Wace, Eugene Mason, Layamon, Arthurian chronicles:
      But I have opposed them, and think to withsay, for I have been steward of all Britain's land, and earl I am potent, unlike to my companions, and I have Welshland half-part in my hand; more I have alone than the others all clean.
  3. (rare, historical, usually, following German terminology) Italy.



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