rosland
English
Etymology
From Welsh rhos (“a meadow, a moor”) + land.
Noun
rosland (countable and uncountable, plural roslands)
- (UK, dialect) Moorish or watery land.
- 1899, Florence Wilkinson, “Melanie à Melançon”, in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume 58, page 435:
- Oh, Melanie […] You used to love […] The billowing of the green marsh-grass, […] You used to love the tinging, cool / Plash of the heron in the pool / Of the wide roslands by Bel' Île, […]
References
- “rosland”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.