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wold
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synonyms: moor, moorland ???
tags: [archaic]
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Definition:a grassland; unforested, open land; a meadow or moor
painting: by Claude Monet, https://www.wikiart.org/en/claude-monet/meadows-in-giverny-1888
► uses
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For some months they met often at the Fabian meetings and elsewhere; till at last it became a habit with them to spend their Sunday mornings on some breezy wold in the country together.
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Saint Withold footed thrice the ’old;
He met the nightmare, and her nine fold;
William Shakespeare. King Lear (1605)
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(Old Sleepy Hollow calls over the wold.)
James Joyce. Ulysses
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