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Cockaigne

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Cock·aigne  (k-kn)
n.
An imaginary land of easy and luxurious living.

[Middle English cokaigne, from Old French, from (pais de) cokaigne, (land of) plenty, from Middle Low German kkenje, diminutive of kke, cake.]

Cockaigne, Cockayne [kɒˈkeɪn]
n
(Myth & Legend / European Myth & Legend) Medieval legend an imaginary land of luxury and idleness
[from Old French cocaigne, from Middle Low German kōkenje small cake (of which the houses in the imaginary land are built); related to Spanish cucaña, Italian cuccagna]
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Noun1.Cockaigne - (Middle Ages) an imaginary land of luxury and idleness
fictitious place, imaginary place, mythical place - a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings
Dark Ages, Middle Ages - the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance


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382) through the Dali-esque absurdity of works like Land of Cockaigne (illustrated in Unpacking Europe, p.
Though More gets credit for entering the term into the lexicon of Western cultural history, the seeds of utopia existed in ancient and biblical sources, where the perfect world was known variously as the Golden Age, the New Jerusalem, the Land of Cockaigne, and, of course, the Garden of Eden.
 
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