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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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Starting with Elgar's Overture: Cockaigne, the second half is given over to Holst's The Planets.
The Blessed Mother will not permit him to falsely impersonate her loyal servant, and confuse the ushering in of the Kingdom of God with a return to the Land of Cockaigne.
Elgar composed the Cockaigne Overture just ahead of his Pomp and Circumstance marches and there are hints of things to come in its stirring, uplifting passages.
 
 
 
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