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Lotusland en · PROPN

Etymology

In reference to Vancouver, coined by Canadian journalist Allan Fotheringham.

Meanings

1. (Greek) The legendary island of the lotus-eaters.
   • Calypso is by far the most effective impediment Odysseus encounters on his journey home to Ithaca, holding him in a sensuous but tedious captivity for seven years, Lotusland revisited. 1994, Judith Yarnall, Transformations of Circe: The History of an Enchantress:
   • We will abide in the golden vale / Of the Lotos-land, till the Lotos fail; / We will not wander more. 1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Lotos-Eaters”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 117:
2. (informal) The city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; (by extension) the province of British Columbia.
   • "Vancouver, until about two years ago." I could tell that she was going to regale me about the beauty of Lotusland, where it never snows and pot grows between cracks in the sidewalk. 1999, Jim Munroe, Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask, HarperFlamingo Canada, →ISBN, page 10:

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