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mappemonde Now only Hist.|mæpˈməʊnd|
Forms: 4–5 mappemounde, mapamond(e, 6 mappamo(u)nd, 9 mappemonde.
[a. F. mappemonde, ad. med.L. mappa mundī map of the world. Cf. mod.Pr. mapomoundo, Sp. mapamundi.]
The map of the world; in early quots., the world itself.
138.Chaucer To Rosemounde 2 Madame, ye ben of al beautè shryne As fer as cercled is the mappemounde [MS. mapamonde]. 1390Gower Conf. III. 102 And sette proprely the bounde Aftre the forme of Mappemounde. c1450Holland Howlat 328 Marchonis in the mapamond..nixt dukis in dignite. 1533Bellenden Livy Prol. ii, The twynkland sternis about þe mappamound. 1560Rolland Crt. Venus ii. 125 Of all palice it was the luminair, That euer ȝit was maid on Mappamond. 1864Major in Archæologia XL. 1 Memoir on a Mappemonde by Leonardo da Vinci. 1891J. Winsor Columbus ii. 61 The mappemonde, which was drawn in 1500, by one of Columbus's pilots, Juan de la Cosa. |