cloud-cuckoo-land
[kloud-koo-koo-land, -koo k-oo-]
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noun
an idealized, illusory domain of imagination; cloudland: the cloud-cuckoo-land of technicolor cartoon whimsy.
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Origin of cloud-cuckoo-land
1815–25; translation of Greek Nephelokokkȳgía, the realm which separates the gods from mankind in Aristophanes' The Birds
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Canterbury came down from the "cloud-cuckoo-land" in which Selwyn twitted her with dwelling.
A History of the English Church in New ZealandHenry Thomas Purchas
cloud-cuckoo-land
cloudland
noun
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