rosland
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Welsh rhos (“a meadow, a moor”) + land.
Noun
[edit]rosland (countable and uncountable, plural roslands)
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (UK, dialect) Heathland; land full of heather.
- (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, […]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rosland”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)