publands en · NOUN
Etymology
From pub + lands.
Meanings
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(UK, plural, plural-only, rare) An area with many pubs.
[…]publands of Earls Court, Hangover Square's protagonist, semi-alcoholic George Harvey Bone[…]
2007, John Harding, Patrick Hamilton: His Life and Work : a Critical Study, page 46:warn the young — / keep from the publands in the port / or into sewerage you'll be flung.
1976, Soundings, volume 3, page 72:Part love story, part thriller, and set in the publands of London's Earls Court,[…]
1985, Roger Omond, The Apartheid Handbook: