Cockaigne

Pieter Brueghel the Elder, The Land of Cockaigne, 1567

Meaning

Proper Noun

Origin

  • From Old French Cocaigne, of obscure origin, but the many references to sweet delicacies in the 13th century poem that is the first record of the word indicate that it came from a Germanic word for a cake, probably the ancestor of the modern Kuchen.

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