Pronounced: GLICK-shalt-toong, noun
Notes: Not a word I know; it seems a bit limited for general use
Yesterday’s word
The word Cockaigne is “an imaginary land of great luxury and ease”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid- to late 1200s
Background / Comments
Our word came from the Middle French phrase pais de cocaigne (the land of plenty). There was a French poem in the 1200s called (in English) The Land of Cockaigne. Among other things, the shops supplied good for free. The history of our word before the poem is not clear.
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